Estrogens and Brain Function: Neural Analysis of a by D.W. Pfaff

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By D.W. Pfaff

This publication brings jointly a few of the effects and ideas produced by way of lots of people-colleagues and scholars with whom i'm privileged to paintings within the laboratory at Rockefeller college. by way of my own historical past I see it as a confluence of inventive forces­ people from whom i've got discovered. i used to be urged in neuroanatomy by way of Walle J. H. Nauta at M. I. T. , and later in a path at Harvard scientific college below the path of Richard Sidman. At Harvard clinical college, the place M. I. T. graduate scholars have been allowed to move sign in, the wonderful neurophysiology direction was once lower than the guiding spirit of Stephen Kuffler. Later, I benefited vastly from engaging in his summer season path in electrophysiological innovations at Woods gap. Eric Kandel and his colleagues have supplied us with the main interesting modern method of the conceptualization and learn of mobile mechanisms for habit. the following at Rockefeller, Carl Pfaffmann and Neal Miller were leaders in each feel of the be aware. not just did they supply me with possibilities to develop to medical adulthood; additionally they set an instance of transparent considering mechanisms for mammalian habit styles. I wrote this booklet to teach how the systematic use of more and more exact electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neuroendocrine tech­ niques can clarify the mechanism for a mammalian behavioral reaction. The habit in query occurs to be delicate to steroid hormones and performs a primary function in reproduction.

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