Also known as epinephrine, adrenaline increases heart rate and blood flow to the brain and muscles, allowing the body to react quickly and, if necessary, engage in fight-or-flight. Cortisol: A hormone produced by the adrenal gland that regulates key physical functions such as balancing blood su...
Hormones, Brain and Behavior || Androgen Regulation of Neural Circuit Activity: Molecules and Mechanisms Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, 108 Giltner Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1101, USA. wadej@msu.edu J Durdiaková 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 Hormones, Brain and Behavior ||...
Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook juvenile hormone (redirected fromJuvenile hormones) Medical Encyclopedia juvenile hormone n. Any of several hormones in insects that regulate various physiological processes, especially larval development and reproduction. ...
into long-term memories. They found that if they administered estradiol directly into the hippocampus within three hours of exploring an object, they enhanced the ability of their female subjects to later remember the identity and location of that object. This effect proved more rapid than the pre...
Books in this series will provide reviews of important and timely topics concerning how hormones influence brain functions, especially behavior. It has been known for many years that hormones have profound effects on behavior. However, it is also the case that behavioral and physical experiences of...
The 16 chapters by 19 authors, all experts in their field, range from sexual behaviour and sex differences in cognitive functions in humans (c. S. Carter, E. MEXICAN wolves showing affection - the male (left) is giving the female a ritual, painless bite. Taken from Trail of the Wolf ...
Among the myriad of functions mitochondria control, perhaps the most important is energy production. That is, mitochondria take the nutrients supplied by diet and convert them into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency that cells use to perform all of the functions that keep us alive....
Fight-or-flight response, response to an acute threat to survival that is marked by physical changes, including nervous and endocrine changes, that prepare a human or an animal to react or to retreat. The functions of this response were first described i
For the millions of women who have had their ovaries removed with hysterectomy, this presents a problem. Amid the myriad of other side effects associated with ovary removal, and perhaps, the root cause of these effects, we can add mitochondrial damage and brain mitochondrial damage, specifically....
THE importance of the hormonal system in the regulation of count-less body functions has been known for a long time, and the pathology of glandular imbalances and deficiencies is the subject of a vast literature. Yet little attention has been paid to the effects of hormones on the human voice...