Estrogens and Brain Function Neural Analysis of a Hormone-Controlled Mammalian Reproductive Behavior
This book brings together some of the results and ideas produced by a large number of people-colleagues and students with whom I am privileged to work in the laboratory at Rockefeller University. In terms of my personal history I see it as a confluence of creative forces persons from whom I have le...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- A. Approaching the Neural Mechanisms of Behavior
- B. Old Questions, New Tools
- C. Why Lordosis Behavior?
- D. Behavioral Description of Lordosis
- 1 Triggering the Behavior: Sensory and Ascending Pathways
- 2 Stimulus
- 3 Primary Sensory Neurons
- 4 Spinal Interneurons
- 5 Ascending Neural Pathways
- 2 Facilitating the Behavior: Sex Hormones in the Brain
- 6 Steroid Sex Hormone Binding by Cells in the Vertebrate Brain
- 7 Hypothalamic Mechanisms
- 8 Hypothalamic Outflow
- 9 Midbrain Module
- 3 Executive Control over the Behavior: Descending and Motor Pathways
- 10 Brainstem to Spinal Cord
- 11 Motoneurons and Response Execution
- 4 Building on this Paradigm
- 12 Logical and Heuristic Developments
- 13 Summary
- 14 Epilogue
- References