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Title Sex and the brain / edited by Gillian Einstein.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 834 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sexually dimorphic behavior : definition and the organizational hypothesis / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen -- Sex differences in behavior : rodents, birds, and primates / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen -- Female mating behavior shown by male rats after administration of testosterone propionate / Frank A. Beach -- Masculine copulatory behavior in intact and castrated female rats / Frank A. Beach and Priscilla Rasquin -- An urge to explain the incomprehensible : Geoffrey Harris and the discovery of the neural control of the pituitary gland / G. Raisman -- The induction of ovulation in the rabbit, by electrical stimulation of the hypothalmo-hypophysial mechanism / G.W. Harris -- Proliferative capacity of the hypophysial portal vessels / G.W. Harris and Dora Jacobsohn -- The effect of intrapituitary infusion of median eminence and other brain extracts on anterior pituitary gonadotrophic secretion / H.J. Campbell, G. Feuer and G.W. Harris -- Sexual differentiation of the central nervous system / Neil J. McClusky and Frederick Naftolin -- A gene from the human sex-determining region encodes a protein with homology to a conserved DNA-binding motif / Andrew H. Sinclair [and others] -- Molecular basis of mammalian sexual determination : activation of Mullerian inhibiting substance gene expression by SRY / Christopher M. Haqq [and others] -- Exchange of terminal portions of X- and Y- Chromosomal short arms in human XX males / David C. Page, Laura G. Brown and Albert de la Chapelle -- Steroid 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in man : an inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism / Julianne Imperato-McGinley [and others] -- Phenotypic features, androgen receptor binding, and mutational analysis in 278 clinical cases reported as androgen insensitivity syndrome / S.F. Ahmed [and others] -- 47,XXY female with testicular feminization and positive SRY : a case report / Eloisa Saavedra-Castillo [and others] -- The five sexes : why male and female are not enough / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Estrogen formation in the mammalian brain : possible role of aromatase in sexual differentiation of the hippocampus and neocortex / Neil J. MacLusky [and others] -- Molecular mechanisms of action of steroid/thyroid receptor superfamily/ Ming-Jer Tsai and Bert W. O'Malley -- Inhibition of rat sexual behavior by antisense oligonucleotides to the progesterone receptor / Shailaja K. Mani [and others] -- Hormonal regulation of hypothalamic gene expression : identification of multiple novel estrogen induced genes / Simon W. Law [and others].
Estrogen resistance caused by a mutation in the estrogen-receptor gene in a man / Eric P. Smith [and others] -- Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig / Charles H. Phoenix [and others] -- Hormones and sexual behavior / William C. Young, Robert W. Goy and Charles H. Phoenix -- Neonatal androgens influence the social play of prepubescent rats / Michael J. Meany and Jane Stewart -- Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain / Fernando Nottebohm and Arthur P. Arnold -- Testosterone triggers growth of brain vocal control nuclei in adult female canaries / Fernando Nottebohm -- Altered perception of species-specific song by female birds after lesions of a forebrain nucleus / Eliot A. Brenowitz -- Hormone accumulation in a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus of the rat spinal cord / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold -- Hormonal control of a developing neuromuscular system. 1, Complete demasculinization of the male rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus using the anti-androgen flutamide / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold -- Sexual dimorphism in human and canine spinal cord : Role of early androgen / Nancy G. Forger and S. Marc Breedlove -- Sexual dimorphism in the neuropil of the preoptic area of the rat and its dependence on neonatal androgen / G. Raisman and P.M. Field -- Sex difference in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Evidence for a morphological sex difference within the medial preoptic area of the rat brain / R.A. Gorski [and others] -- A sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human brain / D.F. Swaab and E. Fliers -- Two sexually dimorphic cell groups in the human brain / Laura S. Allen [and others] -- Effects of discrete lesions of the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area or other medial preoptic regions on the sexual behavior of male rats / Gary W. Arendash and Roger A. Gorski -- Sexual behavior in male rhesus monkeys elicited by electrical stimulation of preoptic and hypothalamic areas / A.A. Perachio, L.D. Marr and M. Alexander -- Medial preoptic and hypothalamic neuronal activity during sexual behavior of the male monkey / Y. Oomura, H. Yoshimatsu and S. Aou -- Demonstration of a sexual dimorphism in the distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus of the rat / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski -- Reversal of the sexually dimorphic distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus by treatment with perinatal androgen / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski -- Sex differences in vasopressin and other neurotransmitter systems in the brain / G.J. De Vries, R.M. Buijs and F.W. van Leeuwen -- Distribution of androgen target cells in rat forebrain and pituitary after (³H)-dihydrotestosterone administration / Madhabananda Sar and Walter E. Stumpf. Developmental changes in estrogen receptors in mouse cerebral cortex between birth and postweaning : studied by autoradiography with 11[beta]-methoxy-16[alpha]-(¹²⁵I)iodoestradiol / Paul J. Shughrue [and others] -- A previously uncharacterized role for estrogen receptor [beta] : defeminization of male brain and behavior / Andrea E. Kudwa [and others] -- ER-X : a novel, plasma-membrane-associated, putative estrogen receptor that is regulated during development and following ischemic brain injury / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand [and others] -- Sex steroids and the development of the newborn mouse hypothalamus and preoptic area in vitro : implications for sexual differentiation / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand -- Sex steroids promote neurite growth in mesencephalic tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive neurons in vitro / Ingrid Riesert [and others] -- Estrogen receptors colocalize with low-affinity nerve growth factor receptors in cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand [and others] -- Early estrogen-induced nuclear changes in rat hypothalamic ventromedial neurons : an ultrastructural and morphometric analysis / Kathryn J. Jones, Donald W. Pfaff, and Bruce S. McEwen -- 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine and gonadal steroid manipulation alter spine density in ventromedial hypothalamic neurons / Maya Frankfurt and Bruce S. McEwen -- Estradiol mediates fluctuation in hippocampal synapse density during the estrous cycle in the adult rat / Catherine S. Woolley and Bruce S. McEwen -- Sex differences of hypothalamic prolactin cells develop independently of the presence of sex steroids / Cordian Beyer [and others] -- A model system for study of sex chromosome effects on sexually dimorphic neural and behavioral traits / Geert J. De Vries [and others] -- Steroid hormones and the brain : linking "nature" and "nurture" / Bruce S. McEwen -- Motherhood modifies magnocellular neuronal interrelationships in functionally meaningful ways / Barbara K. Modney and Glenn I. Hatton -- Alterations of the cortical representation of the rat ventrum induced by nursing behavior / Christian Xerri, Judith M. Stern and Michael M. Merzenich -- Sex-dependent behavioral effects of cerebral cortical lesions in the developing rhesus monkey / Patricia S. Goldman [and others] -- Sex and the single hemisphere : specialization of the right hemisphere for spatial processing / Sandra F. Witelson -- Sex differences in the effects of unilateral brain damage on intelligence / James Inglis and J.S. Lawson -- Left-handedness : association with immune disease, migraine, and developmental learning disorder / Norman Geschwind and Peter Behan -- Cognitive abilities in androgen-insensitive subjects : comparison with control males and females from the same kindred / Julianne Imperato-McGinley [and others] -- Sex differences in regional cerebral glucose metabolism during a resting state / Ruben C. Gur [and others] -- Sex differences in cerebral organization for speech and praxic functions / Doreen Kimura -- Women have greater density of neurons in posterior temporal cortex / S.F. Witelson, I.I. Glezer and D.L. Kigar -- Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language / Bennett A. Shaywitz [and others] -- Sex differences in functional brain activation during a lexical visual field task / Susan L. Rossell [and others] -- Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum / Christine de Lacoste-Utamsing and Ralph L. Holloway -- No sex-related differences in human corpus callosum based on magnetic resonance imagery / Jeffrey S. Oppenheim [and others] -- Sexual dimorphism of the human corpus callosum from three independent samples : relative size of the corpus callosum / Ralph L. Holloway [and others] -- Sexual dimorphism of the anterior commissure and massa intermedia of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Sex differences in the corpus callosum of the living human being / Laura S. Allen [and others] -- Disruption of estrogen receptor [beta] gene impairs spatial learning in female mice / Emilie F. Rissman [and others] -- Spatial memory performance in androgen insensitive male rats / Bryan A. Jones and Neil V. Watson -- Androgens and gender role behaviour in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia / Froukje M.E. Slijper -- Gender dysphoria and gender change in androgen insensitivity or micropenis / Tom Mazur -- Correlation between genotype, phenotype, and sex of rearing in 111 patients with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome / A. Deeb [and others] -- Heterosexual, autosexual and social behavior of adult male rhesus monkeys with medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamic lesions / Jefferson C. Slimp, Benjamin L. Hart and Robert W. Goy -- Sexual orientation after prenatal exposure to estrogens / Anke A. Ehrhardt [and others] -- An enlarged suprachiasmatic nucleus in homosexual men / D.F. Swaab and M.A.
Hofman -- A difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men / Simon LeVay -- Sexual orientation and the size of the anterior commissure in the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski -- Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men / Ivanka Savic, Hans Berglund and Per Lindström -- Psychosexual disorders in children and adolescents / Kenneth J. Zucker and Richard Green -- Estrogen positive feedback on LH secretion in transsexuality / L.J.G. Gooren [and others] -- A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality / Jiang-Ning Zhou [and others] -- Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus / Frank P.M. Kruijver [and others] -- Historical origins of modern research on hormones and behavior / Frank A. Beach.
Note Print version record.
Subject Sex differences.
Sex (Biology)
Sexual dimorphism (Animals)
Brain.
Sex Characteristics.
Behavior, Animal.
Gonadal Steroid Hormones.
Sexual Behavior.
Sex (Biology) (OCoLC)fst01114219
Sex differences. (OCoLC)fst01114321
Sexual dimorphism (Animals) (OCoLC)fst01114818
Genre/Form Collected Works.
Added Author Einstein, Gillian.
Other Form: Print version: Sex and the brain. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007 9780262050876 0262050870 (DLC) 2007000653 (OCoLC)79256702
ISBN 9780262272247 (electronic bk.)
0262272245 (electronic bk.)
9781435606012 (electronic bk.)
1435606019 (electronic bk.)
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