Neuroendocrinology of Mood

ISBN-13: 9783642727405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 335 str.

Detlev Ganten; Donald Pfaff; L. F. Agnati

Opis

This volume deals with the various neurotransmitters (amino acids, biogenic amines, peptides) and their role in the control of behaviour and mood, both from the experimental and from the clinical and pharmacological point of view. The book provides a detailed discussion of how biological rhythms relate to changes in mood, and how the hypothalamus and pituitary hormones can be related to mood changes. Basic hints for diagnosis are also considered.

Spis treści

Principles for the Hormone Regulation of Wiring Transmission and Volume Transmission in the Central Nervous System.- Clinical Studies with Corticotropin Releasing Hormone: in Depression and Related Disorders whitfield.- Biological Rhythms and Mood Disorders.- Recurrent Affective Disorders: Lessons from Limbic Kindling.- The Mechanisms of Action of Antipsychotics and Antidepressant Drugs 117.- Catecholamines and Mood: Neuroendocrine Aspects.- Serotonin and Mood: Neuroendocrine Aspects.- Cholinergic Mechanisms in Mood: Neuroendocrine Aspects.- The Psychobiology of Neurotensin.- Cholecystokinin and Mood.- Opioid Peptides and Mood: Neuroendocrine Aspects.- The Neuroendocrinology of Anorexia Nervosa.- Effects of Peripheral Thyroid Hormones on the Central Nervous System: Relevance to Disorders of Mood.

O autorze

Detlev Ganten, geb. 1941, zählt zu den herausragenden Persönlichkeiten in der europäischen Forschungslandschaft. Er ist u.a. Gründungsdirektor des Max-Delbrück-Centrums für molekulare Medizin, Professor für Klinische Pharmakologie an der FU Berlin, Mitglied im Nationalen Ethikrat und Vizepräsident der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.