Hormones of the Limbic System

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms.

Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists. Others interested in the structure and function of biologically active molecules like hormones and vitamins will, as always, turn to this series for comprehensive reviews by leading contributors to this and related disciplines.

This volume focuses on hormones of the limbic system.

1. Postnatal Ontogeny Of The Glucocorticoid Receptor In The Hippocampus

Anastasia Galeeva, Markku Pelto-Huikko, Svetlana Pivina, and Natalia Ordyan

2. Corticotrophin – releasing hormone and arginine vasopressin in depression: focus on the human postmortem hypothalamus

Ai-Min Bao, Dick F. Swaab

3. Models of Depression

Catharine H. Duman

4. Postnatal development of hypothalamic leptin receptors

Elizabeth C. Cottrell, Julian G. Mercer, Susan E. Ozanne

5. Sex Steroids and Acetylcholine Release in the Hippocampus

Dai Mitsushima

6. Hypothalamic inflammation and obesity

Eliana P. Araújo, Márcio A. Torsoni, Lício A. Velloso

7. Hippocampal Kainate Receptors

Erik B. Bloss and Richard G. Hunter

8. Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors in hippocampus: their impact on neurons survival and behavioral impairment after neonatal brain injury

Justyna Rogalska

9. Transcriptional regulation of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor gene

Kazunori Kageyama and Toshihiro Suda

10. Hippocampal mossy fiber synaptic transmission and its modulation

Katsunori Kobayashi

11. Role of neurotrophic factors in behavioral processes: implications for the treatment of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

Marie-Christine Pardon.

12. Regulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity by Estrogen and Progesterone

Michael R. Foy, Michel Baudry, Garnik Akopian & Richard F. Thompson

13. The role of functional postsynaptic NMDA receptors in the central nucleus of the amygdala in opioid dependence

Michael J. Glass

14. Xenobiotics in the limbic system - Affecting brain’s network function

Ralf P. Meyer, Georgios Pantazis, Nina Killer, Carolin Bürck, Ricarda Schwab, Monika Brandt, Rolf Knoth, and Marcel Gehlhaus

15. Hormones And Sexual Reward

Raúl G. Paredes

16. Astrocytes in the Amygdala

Ryan T. Johnson, S. Marc Breedlove, and Cynthia L. Jordan

17. Brain Plasticity After Ischemic Episode

Galyna G.Skibo, Alexander G.Nikonenko

18. Estradiol and gabaergic transmission In the hippocampus

Tomasz Wójtowicz and Jerzy W. Mozrzymas