Sex and the brain / / edited by Gillian Einstein

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007; ©2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (853 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.6
• Soggetto topico: Sex differences; Sex (Biology); Sexual dimorphism (Animals)
• Soggetto non controllato: NEUROSCIENCE/General
• Altri autori: EinsteinGillian
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sexually dimorphic behavior : definition and the organizational hypothesis / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen -- Sex differences in behavior : rodents, birds, and primates / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen -- Female mating behavior shown by male rats after administration of testosterone propionate / Frank A. Beach -- Masculine copulatory behavior in intact and castrated female rats / Frank A. Beach and Priscilla Rasquin -- An urge to explain the incomprehensible : Geoffrey Harris and the discovery of the neural control of the pituitary gland / G. Raisman -- The induction of ovulation in the rabbit, by electrical stimulation of the hypothalmo-hypophysial mechanism / G.W. Harris -- Proliferative capacity of the hypophysial portal vessels / G.W. Harris and Dora Jacobsohn -- The effect of intrapituitary infusion of median eminence and other brain extracts on anterior pituitary gonadotrophic secretion / H.J. Campbell, G. Feuer and G.W. Harris -- Sexual differentiation of the central nervous system / Neil J. McClusky and Frederick Naftolin -- A gene from the human sex-determining region encodes a protein with homology to a conserved DNA-binding motif / Andrew H. Sinclair ... [et al.] -- Molecular basis of mammalian sexual determination : activation of Mullerian inhibiting substance gene expression by SRY / Christopher M. Haqq ... [et al.] -- Exchange of terminal portions of X- and Y- Chromosomal short arms in human XX males / David C. Page, Laura G. Brown and Albert de la Chapelle -- Steroid 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in man : an inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism / Julianne Imperato-McGinley ... [et al.] -- Phenotypic features, androgen receptor binding, and mutational analysis in 278 clinical cases reported as androgen insensitivity syndrome / S.F. Ahmed ... [et al.] -- 47,XXY female with testicular feminization and positive SRY : a case report / Eloisa Saavedra-Castillo ... [et al.] -- The five sexes : why male and female are not enough / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Estrogen formation in the mammalian brain : possible role of aromatase in sexual differentiation of the hippocampus and neocortex / Neil J. MacLusky ... [et al.] -- Molecular mechanisms of action of steroid/thyroid receptor superfamily/ Ming-Jer Tsai and Bert W. O'Malley -- Inhibition of rat sexual behavior by antisense oligonucleotides to the progesterone receptor / Shailaja K. Mani ... [et al.] -- Hormonal regulation of hypothalamic gene expression : identification of multiple novel estrogen induced genes / Simon W. Law ... [et al.] -- Estrogen resistance caused by a mutation in the estrogen-receptor gene in a man / Eric P. Smith ... [et al.] -- Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig / Charles H. Phoenix ... [et al.] -- Hormones and sexual behavior / William C. Young, Robert W. Goy and Charles H. Phoenix -- Neonatal androgens influence the social play of prepubescent rats / Michael J. Meany and Jane Stewart -- Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain / Fernando Nottebohm and Arthur P. Arnold -- Testosterone triggers growth of brain vocal control nuclei in adult female canaries / Fernando Nottebohm -- Altered perception of species-specific song by female birds after lesions of a forebrain nucleus / Eliot A. Brenowitz -- Hormone accumulation in a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus of the rat spinal cord / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold -- Hormonal control of a developing neuromuscular system. 1, Complete demasculinization of the male rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus using the anti-androgen flutamide / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold -- Sexual dimorphism in human and canine spinal cord : Role of early androgen / Nancy G. Forger and S. Marc Breedlove -- Sexual dimorphism in the neuropil of the preoptic area of the rat and its dependence on neonatal androgen / G. Raisman and P.M. Field -- Sex difference in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Evidence for a morphological sex difference within the medial preoptic area of the rat brain / R.A. Gorski ... [et al.] -- A sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human brain / D.F. Swaab and E. Fliers -- Two sexually dimorphic cell groups in the human brain / Laura S. Allen ... [et al.] -- Effects of discrete lesions of the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area or other medial preoptic regions on the sexual behavior of male rats / Gary W. Arendash and Roger A. Gorski -- Sexual behavior in male rhesus monkeys elicited by electrical stimulation of preoptic and hypothalamic areas / A.A. Perachio, L.D. Marr and M. Alexander -- Medial preoptic and hypothalamic neuronal activity during sexual behavior of the male monkey / Y. Oomura, H. Yoshimatsu and S. Aou -- Demonstration of a sexual dimorphism in the distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus of the rat / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski -- Reversal of the sexually dimorphic distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus by treatment with perinatal androgen / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski -- Sex differences in vasopressin and other neurotransmitter systems in the brain / G.J. De Vries, R.M. Buijs and F.W. van Leeuwen -- Distribution of androgen target cells in rat forebrain and pituitary after (³H)-dihydrotestosterone administration / Madhabananda Sar and Walter E. Stumpf -- ; Developmental changes in estrogen receptors in mouse cerebral cortex between birth and postweaning : studied by autoradiography with 11[beta]-methoxy-16[alpha]-(¹²⁵I)iodoestradiol / Paul J. Shughrue ... [et al.] -- A previously uncharacterized role for estrogen receptor [beta] : defeminization of male brain and behavior / Andrea E. Kudwa ... [et al.] -- ER-X : a novel, plasma-membrane-associated, putative estrogen receptor that is regulated during development and following ischemic brain injury / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand ... [et al.] -- Sex steroids and the development of the newborn mouse hypothalamus and preoptic area in vitro : implications for sexual differentiation / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand -- Sex steroids promote neurite growth in mesencephalic tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive neurons in vitro / Ingrid Riesert ... [et al.] -- Estrogen receptors colocalize with low-affinity nerve growth factor receptors in cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand ... [et al.] -- Early estrogen-induced nuclear changes in rat hypothalamic ventromedial neurons : an ultrastructural and morphometric analysis / Kathryn J. Jones, Donald W. Pfaff, and Bruce S. McEwen -- 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine and gonadal steroid manipulation alter spine density in ventromedial hypothalamic neurons / Maya Frankfurt and Bruce S. McEwen -- Estradiol mediates fluctuation in hippocampal synapse density during the estrous cycle in the adult rat / Catherine S. Woolley and Bruce S. McEwen -- Sex differences of hypothalamic prolactin cells develop independently of the presence of sex steroids / Cordian Beyer ... [et al.] -- A model system for study of sex chromosome effects on sexually dimorphic neural and behavioral traits / Geert J. De Vries ... [et al.] -- Steroid hormones and the brain : linking "nature" and "nurture" / Bruce S. McEwen -- Motherhood modifies magnocellular neuronal interrelationships in functionally meaningful ways / Barbara K. Modney and Glenn I. Hatton -- Alterations of the cortical representation of the rat ventrum induced by nursing behavior / Christian Xerri, Judith M. Stern and Michael M. Merzenich -- Sex-dependent behavioral effects of cerebral cortical lesions in the developing rhesus monkey / Patricia S. Goldman ... [et al.] -- Sex and the single hemisphere : specialization of the right hemisphere for spatial processing / Sandra F. Witelson -- Sex differences in the effects of unilateral brain damage on intelligence / James Inglis and J.S. Lawson -- Left-handedness : association with immune disease, migraine, and developmental learning disorder / Norman Geschwind and Peter Behan -- Cognitive abilities in androgen-insensitive subjects : comparison with control males and females from the same kindred / Julianne Imperato-McGinley ... [et al.] -- Sex differences in regional cerebral glucose metabolism during a resting state / Ruben C. Gur ... [et al.] -- Sex differences in cerebral organization for speech and praxic functions / Doreen Kimura -- Women have greater density of neurons in posterior temporal cortex / S.F. Witelson, I.I. Glezer and D.L. Kigar -- Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language / Bennett A. Shaywitz ... [et al.] -- Sex differences in functional brain activation during a lexical visual field task / Susan L. Rossell ... [et al.] -- Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum / Christine de Lacoste-Utamsing and Ralph L. Holloway -- No sex-related differences in human corpus callosum based on magnetic resonance imagery / Jeffrey S. Oppenheim ... [et al.] -- Sexual dimorphism of the human corpus callosum from three independent samples : relative size of the corpus callosum / Ralph L. Holloway ... [et al.] -- Sexual dimorphism of the anterior commissure and massa intermedia of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Sex differences in the corpus callosum of the living human being / Laura S. Allen ... [et al.] -- Disruption of estrogen receptor [beta] gene impairs spatial learning in female mice / Emilie F. Rissman ... [et al.] -- Spatial memory performance in androgen insensitive male rats / Bryan A. Jones and Neil V. Watson -- Androgens and gender role behaviour in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia / Froukje M.E. Slijper -- Gender dysphoria and gender change in androgen insensitivity or micropenis / Tom Mazur -- Correlation between genotype, phenotype, and sex of rearing in 111 patients with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome / A. Deeb ... [et al.] -- Heterosexual, autosexual and social behavior of adult male rhesus monkeys with medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamic lesions / Jefferson C. Slimp, Benjamin L. Hart and Robert W. Goy -- Sexual orientation after prenatal exposure to estrogens / Anke A. Ehrhardt ... [et al.] -- An enlarged suprachiasmatic nucleus in homosexual men / D.F. Swaab and M.A. Hofman -- A difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men / Simon LeVay -- Sexual orientation and the size of the anterior commissure in the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men / Ivanka Savic, Hans Berglund and Per Lindström -- Psychosexual disorders in children and adolescents / Kenneth J. Zucker and Richard Green -- Estrogen positive feedback on LH secretion in transsexuality / L.J.G. Gooren ... [et al.] -- A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality / Jiang-Ning Zhou ... [et al.] -- Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus / Frank P.M. Kruijver ... [et al.] -- Historical origins of modern research on hormones and behavior / Frank A. Beach.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation
• Titolo autorizzato: Sex and the brain
• ISBN: 0-262-29359-5; 1-282-09916-7; 9786612099168; 0-262-27224-5; 1-4356-0601-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814768503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II