Human Psychobiology

The purpose of psychobiology is the understanding of human psyche, needs and behavior.

I.e. to know what sexuality, aggression or violence, language, pleasure or fear are, to know what an emotion or cognition are, to know the various neurobiological processes which are responsible for learning, reasoning or consciousness, and to determine what the main factors of psychological dynamics of human being would be.

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Psychobiology tries to understand human psychology, needs and behaviors, mainly starting from biology and neurobiology. Psychobiology is a synthesis between neurosciences, ethology (study of animal behavior), ethnology (study of cultures and societies) and psychology.

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Web site and human behaviors presentation ; list of introductory texts :

• Introduction
• Presentation of human psychobiology purposes
• Summary of the human behavior model
• Main research topics relating to aggression, sexuality, speech, emotion and cognition
• Epistemological analysis, definition of psychobiology
• Description of living organisms levels of organization ; Description of emergence phenomenon
• Characterization of somatic, psychic and nervous system needs
• Study of emotion, cognition and information processings
• Study of aggression, sexual, pleasure, maternal and paternal, communication and speech behaviors
• Ethical, social, educational and health implications

In-depth analysis of the hypothesis ; list of scientific articles (available only in French) :

• Methodological principles
• Method of validation



• Psychic needs
• Neurostructural needs



• Functional Neuroanatomy
• Neurophysiology and cerebral processes
• Genesis of emotions



• Modeling of the behavioral dynamics
• New neurobiologic model of sexuality : the Potential Pan-sexuality
• Study of the erotic behavior
• "Sexual" paradigm versus "erotic" paradigm



• Ethical and moral problematics
• Psychopathological dynamics



• Definition of the concept of behavior
• Definition of the aggression behavior
• Milieu and environment
• Period and stage of the development
• Psyche and somato-psychic continuum
• "Nature" and "culture"
• "Normality" and "abnormality"
• "Health" and "disease"
• "Eudequacy" and "dysadequacy"