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Editor-in-Chief Abel Lajtha Director Center for Neurochemistry Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research 140 Old Orangeburg Road Orangeburg New York, 10962 USA Volume Editor Jeffrey D. Blaustein Center for Neuroendocrine Studies 135 Hicks Way University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003‐9271 USA

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006922553 ISBN 13: 978‐0‐387‐30362‐8 Additionally, the whole set will be available upon completion under ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐387‐35443‐9 The electronic version of the whole set will be available under ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐387‐30426‐7 The print and electronic bundle of the whole set will be available under ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐387‐35478‐1 ß 2007 Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. springer.com Printed on acid‐free paper

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Preface

Behavioral neuroscience was not covered extensively in the second edition of the Handbook of Neurochemistry, published in 1983. That was nearly a decade before the formation of the international society, which named itself after this discipline, the International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience, and it was even longer before the inception of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, which focuses on a subfield of behavioral neuroscience. The progress that has been made in the study of the cellular and molecular underpinnings of behavior was almost unimaginable in 1983. The field has prospered thanks to development in novel drugs, genetic models, and related molecular techniques, neuroanatomical techniques, including in situ hybridization histochemistry, new immunocytochemical techniques, real time PCR, microarrays, and more sophisticated behavioral analysis. This volume is filled with a tremendous amount of history that documents the coming of age of behavioral neuroscience. Learning the history and following the development of a field are often an important part of understanding an area of science, and many of the authors have elaborated extensively on the history of their field. Though behavioral neuroscience has advanced tremendously in recent years, impediments to progress still remain in this field. For example, behavior still occasionally takes a back seat to the study of simpler physiological endpoints, such as the control of ovulation. Yet, it is the more complex regulation of behavior and the interactio