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    How to Change Our Human Behavior
    How to Change Our Human Behavior
    How to Change Our Human Behavior
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    How to Change Our Human Behavior

    By Ruud Loeffen

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    In the past 10 years, there has been tremendous development in DNA research and knowledge in the field of our biochemical foundation. The field of biological psychology has seen some huge developments. This knowledge forms the basis of this book. It explains how the neurotransmitters and hormones in your brain evoke human behavior. More importantly, this book helps you to understand, accept and change human behavior. In this e-Book you will find many links to video's and websites. This book provides not only basic material for you as a person, but may also give support for anyone who has a job in education, welfare or politics.
    Who knows, it may help a desperate mother who needs a firm nanny to solve some educational problems. Or a politician, who wants to terminate a civil war.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateFeb 9, 2015
    ISBN9781312894747
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      How to Change Our Human Behavior - Ruud Loeffen

      How to Change Our Human Behavior

      How to Change our Human Behavior

      Ruud Loeffen

      How to change our human behavior

      by regulating our neurotransmitters.

      © 2015, Ruud Loeffen

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any way whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher.

      This book is the e-book version of How to change our human nature and is based on the Dutch version of "De natuur van mensen. De biologische factor in menselijk gedrag" 2007 by Ruud Loeffen.

      Book cover design

      Pixelstudio, Banjaluka, Bosnia&Herzegovina

      Proofreading and editing

      Dayna Plummer et al.

      Support and feedback

      Callisto ICT, Martin Loeffen

      ISBN 978 1 312 894747

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      How to Change our Human Behavior By Regulating Our Neurotransmitters.

      Part 1 The biological factor: basic information

      1 Statement from the biological basis

      1.1What is the human genome?

      Figure 1.1The double helix of DNA

      1.2The endocrine system

      1.3The nervous system

      Neurons and neurotransmitters.

      Figure 1.2The synapse

      Table of biochemicals , neurotransmitters and hormones

      Figure 1.3 PreFrontalCortex PFC

      Summary 1

      2 The role of biological determinacy in different stages of life

      2.1Prenatal period and birth

      2.2Pre-school and elementary time

      PreFrontal Cortex  (PFC)

      2.3Primary school age

      2.4Puberty

      Empathy.

      2.5Sexual identity

      2.6Adolescence and adulthood

      Sex hormones

      2.7Menopause transition period and old age

      Summary 2

      3 The delicate biochemical balance in normal behavior

      3.1The theory of Eysenck: genetic predisposition

      Figure 3.1Scheme of inheritance of personality of  Eysenck

      Figure 3.2Scheme  of more concrete personality theory of Eysenck

      Figure 3.3From Evolutionary inheritance to Actual Behavior: variant 1

      3.2The theory of Zuckerman: Sensation Seeking Scale

      3.3Overdose on adrenaline

      3.4Some biological comments on the autistic spectrum

      3.5The Alchemy of depression and stress

      Depression

      Stress

      Figure 3.4 biological reactions associated with stress

      Summary 3

      Part 2 The biological factor as the basis for behavioral influence

      4 Biological interventions

      4.1Nature versus nurture and nurture through nature

      4.2To ten counting either a TCA-intervention

      Our Prefrontal Cortex (PFC).

      4.3An evolutionary biological-psychological perspective on ADHD and PDD-NOS

      4.4Walking away with depression

      4.5Alcohol, drugs and smart drugs

      4.6Food feeds feelings

      Summary 4

      5 Biological methods and techniques

      Figure 5.1From evolutionary past to actual, concrete  behavior: variant 2

      5.1Channeling aggression in groups

      Social control

      5.2Video home therapy and supernanny

      5.3Using creativity as a biological force

      Sports and games

      Dance and movement

      Music

      Visual arts

      Drama

      Audiovisual media

      5.4Computer games

      5.5Youth at risk

      5.6The importance of touching, cuddling and massage

      5.7Pets as an additional therapist in well fare

      Summary 5

      6 Human nature in worldwide context

      6.1Epigenetics

      Figure 6.1From Evolutionary inheritance to Actual Behavior: variant 3

      6.2A life-coach for neurotransmitters

      6.3The importance of MOA-A and calmness

      6.4    Aggression out of control

      6.5Scientific truth

      Summary 6

      Time table

      Literature

      Websites

      Preface

      In the past 10 years, there has been tremendous development in DNA research and knowledge in the field of our biochemical makeup. The field of biological psychology has seen some huge developments, and this knowledge forms the basis of this book and website. Both will explain how the neurotransmitters in your brain cause human behavior, and more importantly, to understand and accept human behavior.  Of course, it is very important that you have a clear picture of how people are put together.

      You find a summary of the content of this book on our website   http://human-DNA.org . On this website, you will also find a large number of links to other interesting websites, movies and animations.

      In this e-Book you will find many links to video’s and webpages on the internet. You can vist them just bij cklicking on the blue text.

      Introduction

      If you look at our society you will see a number of social problems that are difficult to change through social work or by politics. Thus, the increasing aggression in our society seems to be unstoppable. Football vandals destroy train after train and senseless violence seems to make sense for some people. In this book you will see that there is an underlying basis to human behavior that is mostly not mentioned. That basis is made up of a number of biological factors. Can more insight into these biological factors lead to a better world? This book and the website want to provide an answer to that question.

      In Chapter 1 you will get a picture of the biological basis of human behavior. That basis is formed by the genetic material, DNA, from generation to generation and is passed through from your parents and ancestors to you. What is passed through? Not just the color of your hair.  DNA is also the biological basis for human behavior: your biochemical household consisting of hormones and neurotransmitters and the way your brain works.

      Chapter 2 is about the relationship between the different stages of life of people and the biological basis. You will see hormonal life stages that often cause violent eruptions and related emotional and behavioral problems. The most famous stage of life in that area would be puberty. In this chapter you will discover the striking differences in biological determinacy of man and woman. The basic differences in biological factors lead to substantial differences that in the past were often belittled. In this chapter, we give additional attention to homosexuality, because the organic factor in the development of sexual identity has led to new insights.

      In Chapter 3 you will explore the biological basis under normal behavior. You'll also look at biological factors in derailments in behavior. I hope that it helps you better understand that aggression can be destructive and mean, but can also have a good function when somebody attacks you and when you give a useful response to an intolerable environment.

      In Chapters 4, 5 and 6 you will see that we can change human behavior if we use our knowledge from Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

      This book provides not only basic material for you as a person, but may also give support for anyone who has a job in education, welfare or politics.

      Who knows, it may help a desperate mother who needs a firm nanny to solve some educational problems. Or a politician, who wants to terminate a civil war.

      Part 1 The biological factor: basic information

      In education you pay particular attention to the way you can influence behavior and in fact it is the environment that affects that behavior: you as a parent, a teacher, a politician or a social worker are part of that environment. We see a difference between nature and nurture. With nurture we mean all influence through upbringing and education, and through the influence of friends and family. With nature we aim at the biological basis of human behavior. In the nature vs nurture debate we find educational sciences and pedagogy on the side of nurture, of course. And that is correct, as you'll see in part 2. In part 1 however, I will explain that human behavior is based on nature. All humans over millions of years are prepared to defend their territory against foreign invaders. You will discover that this property has a biological basis in the hormone vasopressin.

      This hormone was developed over millions of years during evolution and passed down through generation to generation: it stimulates the defence of your territory and has a fixed spot in our DNA-profile. In part 1 you will see a number of such hormones and neurotransmitters and I hope and expect that you will gain more insight into human behavior.

      1 Statement from the biological basis

      There are books published in which the relationship between evolution, inheritance and DNA convincingly are demonstrated. Wilson wrote the book on human nature, in which he indicates that basic biological and biochemical processes form the basis of human action, not only with regard to interaction and behavior, but also with regard to the values and standards that we impose on ourselves. Wilson argued that all kinds of aspects of human behavior, such as aggression, sexual preferences, altruism and xenophobia, are partly innate. This is based on biochemical processes we have inherited through the DNA (Wilson, 1979).

      Wilson is one of the founders of socio-biology and a great admirer of the work of De Waal, a Dutch ethologist and primatologist in the United States. De Waal wrote Peacemaking among Primates (De Waal, 1988). He described the behavior of some species of monkeys including the behavior of bonobos, a species equally related to chimpanzees as to people, and he proved that Bonobos use sexual means to solve their quarrels.

      Quite famous is also the book The Naked Ape by Morris. In this book he gave a popular presentation on inherited evolutionary behavior (Morris, 1968). In the 1990s a few books in this area have become very popular. For example, the book by Gray, Men are from Mars and women from Venus. The surprise of that book was the rediscovery of the differences between men and women (Gray, 2002).

      These differences were disparaged in the 1970s and 1980s under the influence of the emancipation of women.  Gray simply showed what everyone already knew: men and women are different. Pease and Pease gave in their book Why men don't listen and women can't read maps further explanation of those differences between men and women. They made a link between the hormonal development of boys and girls and thus the differences between the brains of men and women (Pease & Pease, 1999). These books illustrate that there is a solid step forward on a path where truly new insights could arise: the path of the socio-biology and evolutionary psychology. Martine Delfos wrote Children and Behavioral Problems About Anxiety, Aggression, Depression and ADHD. A Biopsychological Model with Guidelines for Diagnostics and Treatment.

      In The truth about hormones Parry makes us understand what happens to us if we fall in love, or feel sad, irritable or downright insufferable (Parry, 2005). All these writers have in common that they have important knowledge regarding the biological factor of human behavior. This biological factor for a long time remained hidden, because we still knew too little of our genetic material, our DNA, and because the theory of evolution was often regarded as a dubious and unscientific theory.

      The discussion on the theory of evolution is still not finished. People have different opinions about this subject.

      From religions sometimes come forward objections against the theory of evolution. These religious views are based on important writings as the Bible and the Koran. People who do not believe in the theory of evolution are indicated with the term ‘creationists’. On the other hand, we speak about ‘evolutionists’ when people are convinced that the evolution theory of Darwin is true.

      It is interesting to follow the debate and think it over. Evolutionary psychology offers many ideas about the behavior of contemporary people.  That behavior is inherited through our DNA and thus gives a picture of our evolutionary history. This DNA has only in the last ten years been completely mapped, while there are still new data from our genetic material emerging daily. Essential to the

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