%0 Journal Article
%T Social Allostasis: Anticipatory Regulation of the Internal Milieu
%A Jay Schulkin
%J Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
%D 2011
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fnevo.2010.00111
%X Social regulation of the internal milieu is a fundamental behavioral adaptation. Cephalic capability is reflected by anticipatory behaviors to serve systemic physiological regulation. Homeostatic regulation, a dominant perspective, reflects reactive responses; allostatic regulation, the physiology of change, emphasizes longer-term anticipatory, and feedforward systems. Steroids, such as cortisol, and peptides such as corticotrophin releasing hormone are but one example of such anticipatory regulatory systems. The concept of ¡°allostasis¡± is in part to take account of anticipatory control amidst diverse forms of adaptation underlying this regulatory adaptation that supports social contact and the internal milieu.
%K social
%K allostasis
%K regulation
%K and the internal milieu
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnevo.2010.00111/abstract