عنوان

Hormones and the Brain

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Hormones and the Brain

[Book]

by David Wied, Pieter A. Keep.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1980

(337 pages)

Section 1: Receptors and peptidergic pathways in the brain --;1.1 Hormone receptors in the brain --;1.2 Toward an understanding of the multiplicity of glucocorticoid actions on brain function and behaviour --;1.3 Effects of sex steroids on cell membrane excitability: a new concept for the action of steroids on the brain --;1.4 Changing concepts about neuroregulation: neurotransmitters and neuromodulators --;1.5 Cholecystokinin and bradykinin: putative peptide neurotransmitters --;1.6 Growth hormone-dependent polypeptides and the brain --;1.7 On the multiplicity of active substances in single neurons:?-endorphin and?-melanocyte stimulating hormone as a model system --;1.8 Neurohypophysial hormones and their distribution in the brain --;Section 2: Hormones and behaviour --;2.1 Peptides and adaptive behaviour --;2.2 Structure and behavioural activity of peptides related to corticotrophin and lipotrophin --;2.3 Effects of neuropeptides on adaptive autonomic processes --;2.4 Endorphins and schizophrenia --;2.5 Effects of MIF-I and TRH on the brain --;2.6 Neurohypophysial hormones and addiction --;2.7 Androgens and behaviour --;2.8 Female hormones and brain function --;2.9 Hormones and sexual impotence --;Section 3: Psychopathology as a consequence of hormone dysfunction --;3.1 Amphetamines and psychosis --;3.2 Endorphins and pain --;3.3 Central vasopressin function in affective illness --;3.4 ECT, mood and hormones --;3.5 Neurohypophysial peptides and ethanol --;Section 4: Hormonal changes in psychopathology --;4.1 Circadian changes in pituitary hormone levels in manic-depressive illness --;4.2 Hormonal changes as a consequence of jet lag: corticotrophic axis --;4.3 Aspects of brain development in children and adolescents with pituitary growth hormone deficiency --;4.4 Hormonal effects of neuroleptics and dopamine: relationship with change in psychopathology --;4.5 Hormonal changes in addiction.

During the last decade it has become evident that the brain is an important target for hormones. Although it has been discovered only recently that the brain contains numerous peptide hormones, the role of pituitary and hypo- thalamic hormones in brain activity has been the subject of basic studies for quite some time.

Internal medicine.

Medicine.

by David Wied, Pieter A. Keep.

David Wied

Pieter A Keep

[Book]

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