Hormones And The Mind

Author : Edward L. Klaiber, M.D.
Publisher : HarperCol
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0060193735

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Hormones and the Mind by Edward L. Klaiber, M.D. Pdf

Hormones and the Mind is a must-read for women of all ages experiencing problems with mood, memory, and sexuality. Until recently, hormonal treatments have been used infrequently for a relatively narrow range of ailments. Now Dr. Edward L. Klaiber, a leading researcher and clinician in the burgeoning held of psychoneuroendocrinology, shows how hormone modulation can correct hormonal imbalances and work as an effective remedy against depression, memory loss, mental fuzziness, sexual disinterest, PMS, and other symptoms many women face as they approach menopause. Packed with up-to-date scientific research on brain chemistry, compelling testimonials from patients, and practical guidelines that tell readers what they need to know before seeing a doctor, Hormones and the Mind sends a signal of hope to the people who need it most. Includes tables that list and explain hormonal treatments Presents actual case studies that show how hormone treatments have a beneficial and lasting impact Shows how customized hormone treatments can be tailored to match your unique physiological profile Provides useful guidelines to help readers achieve successful hormone modulation. Written in an authoritative and accessible style, Hormones and the Mind presents convincing new evidence that hormone modulation offers an effective solution for a range of troubling symptoms. The result for many women is a more productive, joyous, richer life.

Author : Dr Sarah McKay
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780733638534

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The Women's Brain Book by Dr Sarah McKay Pdf

For women, understanding how the brain works during the key stages of life - in utero, childhood, puberty and adolescence, pregnancy and motherhood, menopause and old age - is essential to their health. Dr Sarah McKay is a neuroscientist who knows everything worth knowing about women's brains, and shares it in this fascinating, essential book. This is not a book about the differences between male and female brains, nor a book using neuroscience to explain gender-specific behaviours, the 'battle of the sexes' or 'Mars-Venus' stereotypes. This is a book about what happens inside the brains and bodies of women as they move through the phases of life, and the unique - and often misunderstood - effects of female biology and hormones. Dr McKay give insights into brain development during infancy, childhood and the teenage years (including the onset of puberty) and also takes a look at mental health as well as the ageing brain. The book weaves together findings from the research lab, case studies and interviews with neuroscientists and other researchers working in the disciplines of neuroendocrinology, brain development, brain health and ageing. This comprehensive guide explores the brain during significant life stages, including: In utero Childhood Puberty The Menstrual Cycle The Teenage Brain Depression and Anxiety Pregnancy and Motherhood Menopause The Ageing Brain

Author : Phyllis J. Bronson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442221024

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Moods, Emotions, and Aging by Phyllis J. Bronson Pdf

Despite the backlash against hormone replacement therapy, the depletion of natural hormones in the female body continues to be a problem for women at middle age and beyond. Remedying the problem has proved difficult for women and doctors who are unaware of, or reluctant to prescribe, bioidential hormones—those that match identically the hormones made naturally in the human body. Moods, Emotions, and Aging: Hormones and the Mind Body Connection explains the vital link for women between hormones, mood, and wellness. It outlines the dramatic hormonal shifts that women undergo in the years before menopause, and presents an approach to combining bioidentical hormone therapy with nutrients to achieve mood balance during midlife and beyond. Phyllis Bronson explains the differences between synthetic and bioidentical hormones, and offers vignettes of women who have used bioidentical hormones to help them deal with the changes that accompany natural hormone loss. This is a groundbreaking book for general readers written by a scientist who is able to take the mystery and the hype out of the hormone controversy. It is intended to empower women, along with their doctors, to make better and more informed choices about their health and well-being as they approach a time in their lives when things can seem like they are spinning out of control. The link between hormones, mood, emotions, and overall wellbeing is a powerful one, and when women are aware of it, they can take steps to bring themselves into better balance physically and emotionally. Here, Bronson shows them how.

Author : Sarah Hill
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780525536048

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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill Pdf

An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye. Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world. This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.

Author : Gareth Leng
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262551939

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The Heart of the Brain by Gareth Leng Pdf

How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain—the hypothalamus—govern our physiology and behavior. As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, Gareth Leng considers the extent to which one small structure of the neuroendocrine brain—the hypothalamus—influences what we do, how we love, and who we are. The hypothalamus contains a large variety of neurons. These communicate not only through neurotransmitters, but also through peptide signals that act as hormones within the brain. While neurotransmitter signals tend to be ephemeral and confined by anatomical connectivity, the hormone signals that hypothalamic neurons generate are potent, wide-reaching, and long-lasting. Leng explores the evolutionary origins of these remarkable neurons, and where the receptors for their hormone signals are found in the brain. By asking how the hypothalamic neurons and their receptors are regulated, he explores how the hypothalamus links our passions with our reason. The Heart of the Brain shows in an accessible way how this very small structure is very much at the heart of what makes us human.

Author : Deborah Sichel,Jeanne W. Driscoll
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0688148980

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Women's Moods by Deborah Sichel,Jeanne W. Driscoll Pdf

Depression and anxiety are rampant in America. Twice as many women as men are afflicted. They suffer in silence, are misdiagnosed, or aren't even aware of their risk. Here is a bold new explanation for why women's unique brain chemistry makes them vulnerable to mood problems.and what they can do about it. Only this book details all the risk factors, including the brain's sensitivity to female hormones, life stresses, reproductive events, and a woman's genetic history. Combining more than forty years of clinical work with their own personal experiences, the authors share a self-care program that helps the brain self-stabilize to alleviate and prevent problems. They also advocate early, customized use of medication before problems become entrenched. This powerful, proven approach is a call to awareness for women who have been trying to "be strong" for too long. Both authors are sought-after speakers, known for their sensitive, no-nonsense presentations, guaranteed to fill the auditorium. They continue their work with women through the Hestia Institute, a collaborative practice they co-founded in Wellesley, Massachusetts.Depression and anxiety are rampant in America. Twice as many women as men are afflicted. They suffer in silence, are misdiagnosed, or aren't even aware of their risk. Here is a bold new explanation for why women's unique brain chemistry makes them vulnerable to mood problems.and what they can do about it. Only this book details all the risk factors, including the brain's sensitivity to female hormones, life stresses, reproductive events, and a woman's genetic history.

Author : Pamela Freebody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Medical
ISBN : UCAL:B4525941

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Hormones and the Brain by Pamela Freebody Pdf

During the last decade it has become evident that the brain is an important target for hormones. Although it has been discovered only recently that the brain contains numerous peptide hormones, the role of pituitary and hypo thalamic hormones in brain activity has been the subject of basic studies for quite some time. Peptide hormones are involved in mental performance. pain perception, food and water metabolism. sleep. sexual behaviour and nursing behaviour, and disturbances in the hormonal climate of the brain may be associated with psychopathology. cognitive disturbances and. possibly. addic tion. The clinical influence of neurohypophysial hormones and their frag ments is studied today on learning and memory. on inadequate behaviour and addiction, in Parkinson's disease. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. depression and schizophrenia. Fragments of adrenocorticotrophin have been shown to affect motivation, concentration and attention. and neuropeptides derived from ~-lipotrophin are probably involved in psychopathology. Thyrotrophin releasing hormone has been implicated in depression. and lutein-releasing hormone in sexual disturbances. In spite of the impressive experimental data; clinical results to date have been controversial and. to some extent. anecdotal. In some cases they have been exciting. and in others disappointing. It was against this background that the International Health Foundation decided to organize and sponsor their workshop on 'The brain as an endo crine target organ in health and disease' at which the papers appearing in this book were presented.

Author : Bozzano G Luisa
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323139137

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Hormonally Induced Changes to the Mind and Brain by Bozzano G Luisa Pdf

Describing the latest findings in both clinical and laboratory research, this volume investigates the behavioral and neural affects of endocrine activity in animals and humans. Each chapter discusses the relationship between normal endocrine control of behavior and the pathological consequences that result from endocrine abnormalities. The relevance to mental health, and basic regulatory homeostatic events are balanced with a basic understanding of how hormones affect behavior and the brain. The book is written to appeal to a wide audience of readers, from the educated lay person to the seasoned M.D. and research scientist. Chapter topics include the effects of endocrine activity on homeostasis, sexual behavior, aggression, circadian rhythms, and affective disorders, in addition to discussing steroid abuse, adrenal steroid effects on the brain, and a detailed investigation on the effects of cholecystokinin and oxytocin.

Author : Hudson Hoagland
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323158367

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Hormones, Brain Function And Behavior by Hudson Hoagland Pdf

Hormones, Brain Function, and Behavior brings together the proceedings of a conference on neuroendocrinology held in May 1956 in New York. The papers explore selected aspects of hormone actions in relation to brain function and behavior and cover topics ranging from the effects of steroid hormones on the nervous system to the behavioral consequences of sex hormones and thyroid hormones. Serotonin, epinephrine, and their metabolites are also discussed in relation to experimental psychiatry. This monograph is comprised of 12 chapters and begins with an assessment of steroid hormones in relation to neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as the influence of adrenocortical steroids on brain function and metabolism. Subsequent chapters focus on the genetic and psychological determinants of sexual behavior patterns; the role of serotonin in mental disorders; the effect of thyroid hormones on appetite for alcohol and alcoholic beverages in rats; and the link between thyroid hormones and mental health. The biochemistry of serotonin and its physiological implications are also examined. This text will appeal to biologists, neuropharmacologists, neuropsychiatrists, and psychologists.

Author : Bernard T. Donovan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Brain
ISBN : 0333443578

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Humors, Hormones and the Mind by Bernard T. Donovan Pdf

Author : Linda M. Rio
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780857007292

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The Hormone Factor in Mental Health by Linda M. Rio Pdf

Endocrine imbalances can cause a whole host of physical and mental health problems. Yet, there is currently no definitive source of information that shows how hormones can bridge the gap between mental health and medical health modalities. This book is a bold crossover between the disciplines of medical and mental health, exploring the understanding that some of the major mental diagnoses belong not only to the field of mental health but also to that of medicine. Clients with depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, infertility, suicidality, anger and rage, fatigue, apathy, cognitive impairments, confusion, eating disorders, and poor body image may actually be presenting symptoms of hormonal disorders. Beginning with patient stories that display the devastating effects of misdiagnosis and the struggle to obtain the correct treatment, it provides members of the mental health profession with an authentic understanding of the impact of endocrine imbalances and disorders. With contributions from some of the world's most respected physicians, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, it provides accurate medical and psychological information about hormone imbalances and disorders, how to recognise the signs in patients, and how to treat them effectively. A comprehensive resource that provides all the information needed to identify endocrine disorders in patients successfully; this book will be of immeasurable value to clinical psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, doctors, nurses and mental health clinicians.

Author : K. Lissak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781468420074

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Hormones and Brain Function by K. Lissak Pdf

The International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology organized its second congress in Budapest between 1 and 3 July, 1971. The sudden death on the 27th of July, 1970, of Professor Max Reiss, the President of the Society, nearly caused a break in the preparation ofthe Congress, but with the invaluable help of Professor Donald H. Ford, Treasurer and Acting President, and Professor Francesca Brambilla, Secretary of the Society, the Organizing Committee surmounted the difficulties. The Organizing Committee of the Congress set out five main topics discussed in five sections by invited lecturers and collective papers by regis tered discussants. Technically, the Congress was organized by the Hungarian Physiological Society in cooperation with the Federation of Hungarian Medical Societies in the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Thanks to the generosity of the Medical Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences we are able to publish the Pro ceedings of the Congress by the Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences jointly with Plenum Press, New York. The Congress was sponsored by the International Society of Psychoneuroendo crinology, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Industry, the Factory of Electronic Measuring Instruments, the Upjohn Co., Kalamzoo, Michigan and the Wellcome Research Laboratory, Langley Court, Backenhom, Kent, England. On behalf of the Organizing Committee may I ex press our grateful thanks for their generous assistance which, despite many difficulties, made the successful organization of an international congress possible.

Author : Edward L. Klaiber
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0060931876

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Hormones and the Mind by Edward L. Klaiber Pdf

A groundbreaking approach to overcoming depression, memory loss, and sexual dysfunction by using individualised hormone treatment. Hormones and the Mind presents a revolutionary program for treating emotional, cognitive, and sexual problems through a unique system of individualised hormone modulation. Until recently, hormonal treatments have been seen primarily as a way of fighting against osteoporosis and protecting the heart. Now, Dr. Edward Klaiber draws upon recent advances in the emerging field of psychoneuroendocrinology to show how certain hormone "cocktails" tailored to each person's particular biochemical profile can work as an effective remedy against depression, moodiness, irritability, memory loss, and sexual dysfunction by restoring the proper hormonal balance to the mind and body.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780080534152

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Hormones, Brain and Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Third Edition offers a state-of-the-art overview of hormonally-mediated behaviors, including an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans. Entries have been carefully designed to provide a valuable source of information for students and researchers in neuroendocrinology and those working in related areas, such as biology, psychology, psychiatry, and neurology. This third edition has been substantially restructured to include both foundational information and recent developments in the field. Continuing the emphasis on interdisciplinary research and practical applications, the book includes articles aligned in five main subject sections, with new chapters included on genetic and genomic techniques and clinical investigations. This reference provides unique treatment of all major vertebrate and invertebrate model systems with excellent opportunities for relating behavior to molecular genetics. The topics cover an unusual breadth (from molecules to ecophysiology), ranging from basic science to clinical research, making this reference of interest to a broad range of scientists in a variety of fields. Contributors from 16 different countries and more than 70 institutions Unlike any other hormone reference on the market Hormones, Brain and Behavior addresses hormone effects in all major vertebrate and non-vertebrate models A timely, current reference on an emerging field with each chapter providing an in-depth exploration of the topic Discusses molecular aspects of hormone function, systems, development, and hormone-related diseases Addresses hormone effects in both the developing and adult nervous system Topics include: Mammalian and Non-mammalian Hormone-behavior Systems Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on Behavior Development of Hormone-dependent Neuronal Systems Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance

Author : Louann Brizendine, MD
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780767928410

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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD Pdf

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound scientific understanding of the nature and experience of the female brain continues to guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship. Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior. The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.