Hormones; Brain and Behavior (3rd Edition)

• • Comprehensive and updated coverage of a rapidly growing field of research

• • An ideal resource for interdisciplinary learning and understanding in the fields of behavior and hormones

• • Covers an unusual breadth of subject fields and topics; ranging from molecules to ecophysiology; and from clinical research to basic science

• • A unique treatment of all major invertebrate and vertebrate model systems with excellent opportunities for relating behavior to molecular genetics

Students; fellows; researchers; and academic clinicians primarily in biology; psychiatry; neurology; psychology; and endocrinology. This work will also appeal to fisheries personnel; agricultural students and professionals; biochemists; anatomists; physiologists; and geneticists

Male sexual behavior; Female sexual behavior; Parental behavior; Social affiliation and pair-bonding; Hormones and aggressive behavior; Food intake and its hormonal control; Body fluid homeostasis; Stress; opioid peptides; and receptors; Social stress: effects on hormones; brain and behavior; Communication by chemical signals; Hormonal and pheromonal effects on the limbic system: implications for reproductive behavior; Circadian regulation of endocrine function; Mammalian seasonal rhythms: behavior and neuroendocrine substrates; Steroids and learning; Hormonal effects on memory; Hormones and prefrontal cortex-related behavior; Animal welfare in the laboratory and on the farm: behavioral and neuroendocrine indicators; Reproductive Plasticity in Fish: Evolutionary Lability in the Patterning of Neuroendocrine and Behavioral Traits Underlying Divergent Sexual Phenotypes; Weakly Electric Fish: Behavior; Neurobiology; and Neuroendocrinology; Hormonal and Pheromonal control of Behavior in Fish; Social Regulation of Reproduction: What Changes and Why?; Sex changing fishes
Hormones and the Regulation of Vocal Patterns in Amphibians: Xenopus laevis Vocalizations as a Model System; Endocrinology of Complex Life Cycles: Amphibians; Sensorimotor Processing Model: Neuroendocrine Control of Reproductive Behaviors in an Amphibian; Neuroendocrine controls of social behavior in frogs; Hormones; Brain; and Behavior in Reptiles; Ecophysiological Studies of Hormone–Behavior Relations in Birds; Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproductive Behavior in Birds; Neural and Hormonal Control of Birdsong; The function of behavior as assessed by phenotypic engineering with testosterone; Behavioral effects of rapid changes in steroids in the avian brain; Nervous System Actions of Insect Developmental Hormones in Adult Insects; Biogenic Amines as Circulating Hormones in Insects; Regulation of Honeybee Worker (Apis mellifera) Life Histories by Vitellogenin; Endocrine Influences on the Organization of Insect Societies (incl. circadian rhythms?); Stressed-Out Insects: Hormonal Actions and Behavioral Modifications; Hormones and behavioral caste in bumblebees; Rapid membrane effects of estrogens  in the central nervous system; Estrogen regulation of neurotransmitters and growth factor signaling; Genetic mechanisms in neural and hormonal controls over female reproductive behaviors; Model systems for the study of androgen-regulated gene expression in the central nervous system; Molecular Aspects of thyroid hormone-regulated behavior; Corticosteroid actions on electrical activity in the brain; Genomic and (epi)genetic aspects of corticosteroid action in brain; Mechanisms of aldosterone  action in brain and behavior; Mechanism of progesterone receptor action in the brain; Progesterone: synthesis; metabolism; mechanism of action; and effects in the nervous system; Novel effects of neuroactive steroids in the central nervous system; Oxytocin; Vasopressin receptors; Cell biology of oxytocin and vasopressin cells; Electrophysiology and Molecular properties of the oxytocin and vasopressin secreting systems in mammals; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Neurophysiology of GnRH; Corticotropin releasing factor: putative neurotransmitter actions of a neurohormone; The brain renin-angiotensin system; Melanocortin receptors; The Gonadal Axis: A life perspective; The Gonadal Axis: Genetic defects – Male; The Gonadal Axis: Genetic defects – Female; The Gonadal Axis: Kallmans; Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis: CAH; The Gonadal Axis: Sexual Orientation; The Gonadal Axis: Transsexualism; Hypothalamic-Thyroid Axis: Genetic defects and  Iodine deficiency; Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis; The Gonadal Axis: Premenstrual Syndrome; The Gonadal Axis: Assisted Reproduction; Thyroid hormone replacement; Glucocorticoid replacement; The HPA Axis: Depression; Stress and Anxiety; The HPA Axis: PTSD; GH excess and efficiency; Aging; Pituitary and Hypothalamic tumors; Anorexia and Bulimia; Obesity and appetite; Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse; Diabetes; Specificity Conferring Mechanism of Glucocorticoid and Mineralocorticoid Action in the Brain; Growth Hormone IGF-1 and Aging; Sexual differentiation of the brain- mode; mechanisms; and meaning; Genetic contribution to sex differences in brain and behavior; Epigenetic contribution to sex differences in brain and behavior; Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Brain and Behavior; Sexual differentiation of neurotransmitters and neuromodulation; Sexual Differentiation of Mammalian Olfactory Communication; Early-life stress impact on neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders (this would include an epigenetic component); Early-Life Experiences: Enduring Behavioral; Neurological; and Endocrinological Consequences; Thyroid Hormones and Brain Development; Sexual Differentiation of Brain and Behavior in Birds; Sexual Differentiation of Behavior in Nonhuman Primates; Gonadal Hormones and Sexual Differentiation of Human Brain and Behavior; Sexual identity and sexual orientation; Influence of gonadal steroid hormones on nervous system structure and function during adolescence; Neuroendocrine Regulation of Puberty; Regulation of Human Puberty; Hormone regulation of neurogenesis across the lifespan; Effects of Sex Steroids on Damaged Neural Systems; Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain and behavior; Reproductive aging of neuroendocrine systems; Sex Differences in Central Autoimmune Diseases

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