HANDBOOK OF NEUROBEHAVIORAL GENETICS AND PHENOTYPING

1 Genetic Screens in Neurodegeneration 1
2 Computational Epigenomics 19
3 Behavioral Phenotyping in Zebrafish: The First Models of Alcohol Induced Abnormalities 37
4 How does Stress Affect Energy Balance? 53
5 Interactions of Experience-Dependent Plasticity and LTP in the Hippocampus During Associative Learning 91
6 The Genetics of Cognition in Schizophrenia: Combining Mouse and Human Studies 115
7 The Biological Basis of Economic Choice 143
8 Interval-timing Protocols and Their Relevancy to the Study of Temporal Cognition and Neurobehavioral Genetics 179
9 Toolkits for Cognition: From Core Knowledge to Genes 229
10 Quantitative Genetics of Behavioral Phenotypes 253
11 Behavioral Phenotyping in Genetic Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Translational Outlook 271
12 Genetics of Human Sleep and Sleep Disorders 295
13 The Endocannabinoid System in the Control of Behavior 323
14 Epigenetics in Brain Development and Disease 357
15 Impact of Postnatal Manipulations on Offspring Development in Rodents 395
16 Exploring the Roles of Genetics and the Epigenetic Mechanism DNA Methylation in Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Behavior 417
17 Genetics and Neuroepigenetics of Sleep 443
18 Behavioral Phenotyping Using Optogenetic Technology 469
19 Phenotyping Sleep: Beyond EEG 489
20 A Cognitive Neurogenetics Screening System with a Data-Analysis Toolbox 507
21 Mapping the Connectional Architecture of the Rodent Brain with fMRI 527
22 Cutting Edge Approaches for the Identification and the Functional Investigation of miRNAs in Brain Science 553

The Handbook of Behavioral Genetics and Phenotyping represents an integrative approach to neurobehavioural genetics; worldwide experts in their field will review all chapters. Advanced overviews of neurobehavioural characteristics will add immense value to the investigation of animal mutants and provide unique information about the genetics and behavioural understanding of animal models, under both normal and pathological conditions. Cross-species comparisons of neurobehavioural phenotypes will pave the way for an evolutionary understanding of behaviour.
Moreover, while biological sciences are progressing towards a holistic approach to investigate the complexity of organisms (i.e., “systems biology” approach), an integrated analysis of behavioural phenotyping is still lacking. The Handbook of Behavioral Genetics and Phenotyping strengthens the cross-talk within disciplines that investigate the fundamental basis of behaviour and genetics. This will be the first volume in which traditionally distant fields including genomics, behaviour, electrophysiology, neuroeconomics, and computational neuroscience, among others, are evaluated together and simultaneously accounted for during discussions of future perspectives.