Hormones and the Brain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kordon, Claude (Editor), Gaillard, Rolf-Christian (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Peripheral hormones have a major impact on the brain: they are able to interfere with its development, to affect release of neurotransmitters and concentrations of receptors, to trigger growth factors involved in lesion repair. These multiple actions account for their capacity to modulate a number o...