Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Anatomy of the Human Hypothalamus
Bertalan Dudás
(Neuroendocrine Organization Laboratory (NEO), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA)
Chapter 2. Specialized Features of the Arcuate Nucleus of the Hypothalamus
John K. Young and Eva K. Polston
(Department of Anatomy; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA)
Chapter 3. Morphology and Distribution of Hypothalamic Peptidergic Systems
Bertalan Dudás and István Merchenthaler
(Neuroendocrine Organization Laboratory (NEO), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Chapter 4. Oxytocin and Vasopressin in the Human Hypothalamus: Function and Relationship to Steroid-Binding Globulins
Jack D. Caldwell and Gustav F. Jirikowski
(Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA; Department of anatomy, University of Jena, Jena, Germany)
Chapter 5. Catecholamines in the Human Hypothalamus
Bertalan Dudás and István Merchenthaler
(Neuroendocrine Organization Laboratory (NEO), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Chapter 6. Regulation of Gonadal Functions in the Human Hypothalamus: Inputs of the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)-System
Bertalan Dudás and István Merchenthaler
(Neuroendocrine Organization Laboratory (NEO), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Chapter 7. Hypothalamic Regulation of Growth
Bertalan Dudás, Michael Peroski and István Merchenthaler
(Neuroendocrine Organization Laboratory (NEO), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Chapter 8. Essential Hypertension as a Hypothalamic Disease
(Valeri D. Goncharuk and Dick F. Swaab, The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands)
Chapter 9. Hypothalamic Control of Appetite and Energy Metabolism
Alex Reichenbach, Romana Stark and Zane B. Andrews
(Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia)
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Chapter 10. Hypothalamus and Circadian Rhythms
Adries Kalsbeek and Michel A. Hofman
(Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter 11. Hypothalamic Regulation of Body Temperature
Shaun F. Morrison and Christopher J. Madden
( Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA)
Chapter 12. The Hypothalamus and Sleep
Gloria E. Hoffman
( Morgan State University, Department of Biology, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Chapter 13. The Role of the Hypothalamus in Psychiatric Illness
József Haller and Dóra Zelena
(Department of Behavioural Neuroscience, Laboratory of Behavioural and Stress Studies, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Chapter 14. The Aging Hypothalamus
István Merchenthaler
( Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
List of Contributors
Index
