The book represents a critical update on interactions between the host and its gut microbiome that conditions the socio-biology of the mind and behaviour.
Evidence has been scientifically approached and reveals that our conscious behaviour involves a complex interplay of multiple non-conscious domains, including complex host-gut microbiome relationships. The book describes trends and issues on which there is increasing evidence of the impact of host-gut microbiome interactions on behaviour and cultural construction of self-perception. This suggests the need to re-evaluate traditional, basic concepts of human development. Additionally, it calls attention to open issues involving conceptual themes on neurobiological integration and its impact on early developmental and social domains on the typical extended period of human postnatal helplessness during which the basic scaffolding of mental development is completed. It also deals with the impact of poverty and inadequate early feeding habits on individual cognitive development, performance, and social construction. It discusses the need to reformulate views and policies on social marginalisation, child poverty, and malnutrition involving host-gut microbiome imbalances. The spectrum of possible behaviours in all species and its plasticity depends on an integrated vector of basic components involving the genetic code, social and physical environmental, developmental conditions, the relative condition of dominance or submission in social settings –or prey/predator in the Natural Kingdom– and on its physiological and anatomical construction profiles. Graduate, postgraduate and teachers interested in areas connected with anthropology, social medicine, early education, and health policymakers will benefit greatly from this book.
By:
Jorge A. Colombo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032678511
ISBN 10: 1032678518
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Acknowledgement Preliminary quotes on the hypothesis regarding the primaeval origin of bioorganic molecules, a basis for prebiotic evolution Foreword 1 Evolutive Considerations 2 Possible Life Origin The Primal, Highly Adaptive, Opportunistic Commensal Living Partners 3 The Dynamic of Change from the Human Perspective The Concept of Anthropocene 4 On the Holobiont and Hologenome Preliminary Comments Holobiont and Hologenome 5 Microbiota and Species Evolution Human Microbiome 6 Host Microbiome and Evolution. Living with Commensal Bacteria Host Microbiome Evolution The Human Context. Microbiome Inoculum in Newborns. Host Diet Evolutive, Comparative Considerations Microbiota and Feeding Cultural Profiles 7 Brain-Gut Microbiome Interactions 8 The Microbiome and its Behavioural Impact Systemic Impact Microbiome Impact on Behaviour and Cognition Neurocognitive and Social Behavioural impact A Human Experiment in Spaceflight Conditions 9 Human Postnatal Growth and Critical Period Conditions of Human Postnatal Growth Birth Weight and Energy Reserves Experimental Research on Brain Critical Period Early Experience and Human Development 10 Gut Microbiome, Diet, Poverty, and Child Development Poverty and Early Malnourishment Impact on Child Development Microbiome and Brain/Mental Development Early Malnutrition 11 Beyond Human Pride 12 Brain and Gut Microbiome: An Integrated View of Conditioning Developmental Processes The Feeble Notion of Freedom. Freedom in a Conditioning Cage Concluding Remarks Index
Jorge A. Colombo, MD, PhD. is a former Full Professor at the University of South Florida (USA) and Principal Investigator at the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). He is also a former Fellow of several international organisations, including NIH, von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, and British Royal Society.
Reviews for The Human Biome and Human Behaviour: A Biopsychological Perspective
This book by Jorge A. Colombo represents a careful update and critical discussion of a theme that underlines the biological conditioning of human physiology and behaviour since early postnatal days. The human gut microbiome constitutes a dynamic, interactive component of human physiology since earlier days of individuals under normal conditions, exacerbated/modified under pathological and inadequate nutritional conditions. It covers fundamental domains of the interactions involving gut microbiome, diet, behaviour, poverty, and child development. The book calls the attention on open issues involving conceptual themes on human neurobiological integration and its impact on crucial developmental and social domains. Prof. Dr. Andreas Reichenbach, (formerly) Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Leipzig University, Germany I happily endorse the book by Jorge Colombo who is the most prominent neuroanatomist and behaviorist and writer and painter - the man of Renaissance proportions indeed. I, as well as many people in my field (Neuroglia), are constantly referring to many of his seminal discoveries. I sincerely believe that this new book will be another milestone. Prof. Dr. Alexei Verkhratsky, professor of Neurophysiology, The University of Manchester, UK
