Hormones, Brain, and Behavior is a comprehensive work discussing the effect of hormones on the brain and, subsequently, behavior. This five-volume major reference work has 106 chapters covering a broad range of topics with an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans.

To truly understand all aspects of our behavior, we must take every influence (including the hormonal influences) into consideration. Donald Pfaff and a number of well-qualified editors examine and discuss how we are influenced by hormonal factors, offering insight, and information on the lives of a variety of species.

Hormones, Brain, and Behavior offers the reader comprehensive coverage of an emerging and prominent field with a state-of-the-art overview of hormonally-mediated behaviors. The set provides unique treatment of all major vertebrate and invertebrate model systems with excellent opportunities for relating behavior to molecular genetics. The topics cover an unusual breadth (from molecules to ecophysiology), ranging from basic science to clinical research, making this reference of interest to a broad range of scientists in a variety of fields.

Key Features

* Contributors from 16 different countries and more than 70 institutions

* Unlike any other hormone reference on the market Hormones, Brain and Behavior addresses hormone effects in all major vertebrate and non-vertebrate models

* A timely, current reference on an emerging field with each chapter providing an in-depth exploration of the topic

* Discusses molecular aspects of hormone function, systems, development, and hormone-related diseases

* Addresses hormone effects in both the developing and adult nervous system

Topics include:

* Mammalian and Non-mammalian Hormone-behavior Systems

* Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on Behavior

* Development of Hormone-dependent Neuronal Systems

* Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance

Far-reaching in scope and certainly indispensable to researchers in many intersecting fields, this five-volume reference contains 104 contributions arranged in sections on hormone-behavior systems in mammals, and in non-mammals (both vertebrates and invertebrates); cellular and molecular mechanisms of hormone actions on behavior; development of hormone-dependent neuronal systems (sexual differentiation, early stress, life stages); and finally, hormone- behavior relations of clinical importance, including such diverse topics as sex/gender differences with regard to pain, affective disorders, diabetes mellitus, calcium metabolism and psychiatric disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and substance abuse, among others. Four editors have brought together an international cast of contributors to create this comprehensive volume work (if gaps in coverage are identified, they'll be corrected in a new edition): Donald W. Pfaff (neurobiology and behavior, The Rockefeller University); Arthur P. Arnold (physiological science, UCLA); Anne M. Etgen (neuroscience and psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Susan E. Fahrbach (entomology and neuroscience, U. of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.
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"...the first of its kind...this set belongs in every academic medical library..."

-JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLOISM (2002)

"Far-reaching in scope and certainly indispensable to researchers in many intersecting fields."

— BOOK NEWS (September 2002)

"A worthwhile addition to any institution with a graduate program."

-CHOICE (January 2003)

"...editors, contributors and the publisher are to be commended for this up-to-date, well written and well referenced work."

- Zvi Laron, THE JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINE GENETICS, 2004

"...the first of its kind...this set belongs in every academic medical library..."

-JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLOISM (2002)

"Far-reaching in scope and certainly indispensable to researchers in many intersecting fields."

'"BOOK NEWS (September 2002)

"A worthwhile addition to any institution with a graduate program."

-CHOICE (January 2003)

Hormones, Brain, and Behavior is a comprehensive work discussing how hormones affect the brain and subsequently, behavior. This five-volume major reference work has 106 chapters covering a broad range of topics with an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans.

ume V: Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance