Contemporary behavioral endocrinology and biological neuron psychology claim that neurons play an important role in the production of behavioral differences in human and other animal behaviors. This paper critically examines these claims, which range from simple biologically determinist arguments through to more complex attempts to theorize the connected roles of the hormonal and the social.
Behavioral neurons
Sciences rely on a social/biological distinction. Analyzing contemporary feminist work on the body as lived, and innovative scientific views of biology's "coaction" with the behavior, it is suggested that this distinction is limiting and requires rethinking. Rather than accusing science of essentialism and rejecting the role of the biological neuron outright, it may prove more fruitful for neurological biology to theorize the "interimplication" of the biological and the social in attempts to understand sex differences in behavior. (Lavie, 2001)
In spite of the ubiquitous......

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Title: Do Nuerons Dictate Behavior
Approximate Word Count: 761
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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