Principles of hormone behavior relations /
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Characterizing the phenomena : hormone effects are strong and reliable
- Hormones can both facilitate and repress behavioral responses
- One hormone can have many effects : a single hormone can affect complex behaviors
- Hormone combinations can be important for influencing an individual behavior
- Hormone metabolites can be the behaviorally active compounds
- There are optimal hormone concentrations : too much or too little can be damaging
- Hormones do not "cause" behavior; they alter probabilities of response to given stimuli
- History : hormone effects can depend on family, gender, and development
- Familial/genetic dispositions to hormone responsivesness can influence behavior
- The sex of the recipient can influence the behavioral response
- Hormone actions early in development can influence hormone responsivenes in the CNA during adulthood
- Puberty alters hormone secretion and hormone responsivity and heralds sex differences
- Changes in hormone levels and responsiveness during aging affect behavior
- Time : hormonal effects on behavior depend on temporal parameters
- Duration of hormone exposure can make a big difference : in some cases longer is better, in other cases brief pulses are optimal for behavioral effects
- Hormonal secretions and responses are affected by biological clocks
- Space : spatial aspects of hormones administration and impact are important
- Effects of a given hormone can be widespread across the body; central effects consonant with peripheral effects form coordinated, unified mechanisms
- Hormones can act at all levels of the neuraxis to exert behavioral effects; the nature of the behavioral effect depends on the site of action
- Mechanisms : molecular and biophysical mechanisms of hormone actions gives clues to future therapeutic strategies
- In responsive neurons, rapid hormone effects can facilitate later genomic actions
- Gene duplication and splicing products for hormone receptors in the CNS often have different behavioral effects
- Hormone receptors and other nuclear proteins influence hormone responsiveness
- Environment : environmental variables influence hormone/behavior relations
- Hormone effects on behavior depend upon context
- Behavioral/environmental context also alters hormone release
- Evolution
- Neuroendocrine mechanisms have been conserved to provide biologically adaptive body/brain/behavior coordination