Essential single-volume review for the individual researcher or student of the mechanisms by which hormones impact the brain and behavior.
Section I: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms 1. Rapid Membrane
Effects of Estrogen in the CNS, Martin J. Kelly & Oline K.
Rønnekleiv (Oregon Health Sciences Univ, USA) 2. Estrogen
Regulation of Neurotransmitter and Growth Factor Signaling, Anne
Etgen & Luis Garcia-Segura (The Cajal Institute, Spain) 3. Genetic
Mechanisms in Neural and Hormonal Controls Over Female Reproductive
Behaviors, Donald Pfaff (Rockefeller Univ, USA) 4. Molecular
Biology of estrogen receptor action, Zafar Nawaz (Univ of Miami,
USA) 5. Molecular Biology of Androgen Action, Kathryn J. Jones
(Loyola Univ, USA) 6. Androgen Actions on Receptors and Channels:
Regulation of Electrical Excitability and Synaptic Transmission,
Leslie P. Henderson & Carlos A.A. Penatti (Dartmouth Medical
School, USA) 7. Model Systems for the Study of Androgen-Regulated
Gene Expression in the Central Nervous System, Donald J. Tindall &
Hannelore V. Heemers (Mayo Clinic, USA) 8. Thyroid hormones in
neural tissue, Ronald Michael Lechank, Csaba Fekete & Roberto Toni
(Univ of Bologna, Italy) 9. Nuclear mechanisms of glucocorticoid
action, Gordon Hager, Diana Stavreva & Ty C. Voss (NIH, USA) 10.
Acute Corticosteroid Actions in the Brain: Cellular Mechanisms and
Behavioral Consequences, Miles Orchinik, Paul Gasser & Christopher
Lowry (Univ of Bristol, UK) 11. Corticosteroid Actions on
Electrical Activity in the Brain, E. Ronald de Kloet, Marian Joëls,
Henk Karst & Harm J. Krugers (Leiden Univ, Netherlands) 12.
Molecular genomics of mineralocorticoid actions, Peter J. Fuller &
Morag Young (Prince Henry's Inst of Medical Research, Australia)
13. Molecular genomics of progestin actions, Marc Tetel & Carol
Lange (Wellesley College, USA) 14. Mechanism of Progesterone
Receptor Action in the Brain, Shaila K. Mani & Bert W. O'Malley
(Baylor College, USA) 15. Progesterone: Synthesis, Metabolism,
Mechanisms of Action, and Effects in the Nervous System: An
Overview, Michael Schumacher (INSERM, France) 16. Neuroactive
Steroids and the GABA-A Receptor, Sheryl S. Smith (SUNY Health Sci
Center, USA)
Section II: Development of Hormone-Dependent Neuronal Systems,
Sexual Differentiation 17. Sex differences in the brain in the age
of genetics, Arthur P. Arnold (UCLA, USA) 18. Sexual
Differentiation of the Brain: Mode, Mechanisms, and Meaning, Geert
J. De Vries & Nancy Forger (UMass Amherst, USA) 19. Early Life
Experiences: Enduring Behavioral, Neurological and Endocrinological
Consequences, Regina Sullivan, Russell Romeo & Akaysha C. Tang
(Univ of Oklahoma, USA) 20. Thyroid Hormones and Brain Development,
Juan Bernal (Univ of Madrid, Spain) 21. Neuroendocrine Regulation
of Puberty, Sergio R. Ojeda & Ei Terasawa (Univ of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 22. Sex steroids and neural growth in
adulthood, Bradley Cooke & Catherine S. Woolley (Northwestern, USA)
23. Adult Neurogenesis in the Mammalian Brain, Liisa Galea (Univ of
British Columbia, Canada) 24. Estrogen and Progesterone in aging
and damaged nervous systems, Patti Hurn & Donald Stein (Emory
University, USA)
Section III: Neuropeptides & Neuromodulators 25. Oxytocin, Larry
Young & Hans H. Zingg (McGill Univ, Canada) 26. Vasopressin
Receptors, Joseph G. Verbalis (Georgetown, USA) 27. The Cell
Biology of Oxytocin and Vasopressin Cells, Jeffrey G. Tasker,
Dominique A. Poulain & Dionysia T. Theodosis (Univ Bordeaux,
France) 28. Energy Partitioning, Ingestive Behavior and
Reproductive Success, Jill Schneider & Alan G. Watts (USC, USA) 29.
Stress, Opioid Peptides and their Receptors, Ryszard Przewlocki
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) 30. Gonadotropin Releasing
Hormone, P. Michael Conn, Lothar Jennes, Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre, Jo
Ann Janovick & Valeriya Adjan (Oregon Regional Primate Research
Center, USA) 31. Corticotropin-Releasing Factor: Putative
Neurotransmitter Actions of a Neurohormone, Rita J. Valentino &
Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele (Thomas Jefferson Univ, USA)
Donald W. Pfaff heads the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. He received his scientific training at Harvard College and MIT. He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pfaff's laboratory focuses on steroid hormones and brain function, genes influencing neuronal functions, and generalized CNS arousal. He is the author or coauthor of over 10 books and more than 900 research publications.
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