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MD Full Professor of Physiology Anatomy & Physiology DptUniversité Laval Québec Canada |
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AREAS OF RESEARCH/( THEMATIQUE) |
Comparative
physiology of thermoregulation and regulation of body weight. Consciousness
phylogenesis, Pleasure as fondamental impulse. Decision taking mechanisms.
Construction of a tridimensional model of consciousness. (La physiologie comparée de la thermorégulation et de la régulation du poids corporel. Phylogénèse de la conscience. Le plaisir, motivation fondamentale. Mécanismes de la prise de décision.) |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE |
Régulation
et controle en biologie
(avec M. Russek). Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec, 1982. Human Selective Brain Cooling. RG Landes, Springer-Verlag, Austin, 1995 La quête du plaisir Liber, Montréal, 1995. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
Cabanac
M. Physiological role of pleasure, Science 1971 173: 1103-1107. Cabanac M.Pleasure: the common currency. J. theoret. Biol. 1992 155: 173-200. Cabanac M. On the origin of consciousness, a postulate and its corollary. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 1995 20: 33-40 Cabanac M Emotion and phylogeny. Jpn J Physiol. 1999 Feb;49(1):1-10. Cabanac M. Sensory pleasure and alliesthesia. 1836-1837. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2nd edition. G. A. Adelman & B. A. Smith (eds.), Elsevier Science , New York, 1999. |