Includes new research and comprehensive reviews of recent trends in behavioral neuroendocrinology, including sexual and maternal behavior and brain sexual differentiation.
Presents a combination of historical perspective with diversification of the field, driven both by ideas and by innovative methodologies.
Illustrates the wide-ranging impact of the field of behavioral neuroendocrinology on our understanding of the interaction among brain, hormones, and behavior.
Provides information on the integration of hormonal, neurotransmitter, and functional neuroanatomical mechanisms underlying species-typical reproductive behavior, including clinical implications.
Summary

Inspired by Carlos Beyer's 50 years of pioneering research and influence on his students and colleagues, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology builds upon Beyer's fundamental discoveries and concepts as well as their widespread implications. It presents original research and reviews on mechanisms genomic and non-genomic of steroid and protein hormone action; the role of steroid metabolism, especially aromatization, protein phosphorylation, and neurotransmitter action in mediating reproductive behavior and sexual differentiation; and brain and spinal cord mechanisms in sexual behavior and analgesia.

This book presents a rich diversity of topics lactation, maternal behavior, pheromone action, chronobiology, allodynia, angiogenesis, prostate physiology, sexual motivation, and specific brain systems, including vomeronasal system, cerebellum, preoptic area, hypothalamus, and spinal cord. This book brings together, in one source, an international "family" of researchers whose work has evolved in diverse but related ways from a seminal set of discoveries and concepts in behavioral neuroendocrinology.

NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR


Pioneering Studies on the Effects of Steroid Hormone Metabolism on the Brain and Behavior
María Luisa Cruz, Miguel Cervantes, and Gabriela Moralí

Neuroendocrine and Behavioral Role of the Medial Preoptic Area in Rabbits: Recollections of Collaboration with Carlos Beyer
Anders gmo and Knut Larsson

Hormonal Regulation of the Copulatory Motor Pattern in Mammals
Gabriela Moralí, Knut Larsson, José Luis Contreras, and Miguel Cervantes

Neuronal and Neurochemical Correlates of Copulatory Motor Patterns in Male Rats
Marisela Hernández González and Miguel Ángel Guevara

Male Sexual Satiety and the Coolidge Effect in Rats: Relation between Behavioral and Seminal Parameters
Rosa Angélica Lucio, Alonso Fernández-Guasti, Knut Larsson

The Sexual Cerebellum
Jorge Manzo, Porfirio Carrillo, Genaro A. Coria-Avila, Luis I. García

Intracellular Signaling Involved in Progestin Regulation of Female Sexual Behavior in Rodents
Oscar González-Flores, Ignacio Camacho-Arroyo and Anne M Etgen

The Delicate Line between "Wanting" (Desire) and "Liking" (Reward) Sexual Behavior
Elisa Ventura-Aquino, Jorge Baños-Araujo, Alonso Fernández-Guasti, Raúl G. Paredes

NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF MATERNAL BEHAVIOR AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

The Rabbit Doe as a Model of Neuroendocrine Synchronization
Mario Caba, Teresa Morales, Enrique Meza

The Domestic Rabbit (Oryctolagus Cuniculus) as a Model Animal: From Reproductive Neurobiology to Developmental Psychobiology
Kurt Leroy Hoffman, Robyn Hudson, Margarita Martínez-Gómez, and Amando Bautista

A View of Rabbit Maternal Behavior from the Perspectives of Complex Systems and Chronostasis
Gabriela González-Mariscal and Raúl Aguilar-Roblero

Multisignaling Approach to the Study of Sexual Differentiation of Brain and Behavior in Mammals
María Cruz Rodríguez Del Cerro, Carmen Pérez-Laso, F Gómez, Santiago Segovia, and Santiago Segovia

Ubiquitous Modulators of Brain Activity: GABA and Carlos Beyer-Flores, PhD
Margaret M. McCarthy and Rae Silver

NEUROENDOCRINE INSIGHTS TOWARD DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS

From Reproductive Neuroendocrinology and Lactation to Vasoinhibins and Angiogenesis
Carmen Clapp and Gonzalo Martínez de la Escalera

Neuroendocrine and Molecular Aspects of the Physiology and Pathology of the Prostate
María Elena Hernández, Gonzalo E. Aranda-Abreu, and Fausto Rojas-Durán

From Sexual Behavior to Analgesia to an Antinociceptive Agent: Glycinamide
P. Gómora-Arrati, Galicia-Aguas Y, O. González-Flores, and B.R. Komisaruk

EPILOGUE

How Carlos Beyer Influenced our Lives
Barry R. Komisaruk and Beverly Whipple

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