Hormones, gender, and the aging brain :: the endocrine basis of geriatric psychiatry /

The significance of hormone action in psychiatry has been long studied, now including the psychiatric effects of hormones on the aging process. This clinical reference addresses the hormonal basis of mental disorders in older people. Hormones influence a wide range of states and conditions, from pai...

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Weitere Verfasser: Morrison, Mary F. (Mary Frances), 1958-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Zusammenfassung:The significance of hormone action in psychiatry has been long studied, now including the psychiatric effects of hormones on the aging process. This clinical reference addresses the hormonal basis of mental disorders in older people. Hormones influence a wide range of states and conditions, from pain tolerance and anorexia to attention, mood, immunity, cardiovascular and cognitive function, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Written by an eminent team of psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians and neuropharmacologists, this book brings together established information and findings in four sections: • An overview of the basic science of neurosteroids • Sex difference and the roles that cortisol, thyroid hormone, and the sex steroids estrogen, progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone and testosterone play in common mental disorders and pain sensitivity • Psychoneuroimmunology in relation to age • Sex differences and hormones in psychotropic drug metabolism in the elderly.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 359 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0511004362
9780511004360
0511033117
9780511033117
0511117787
9780511117787
9780521653046
0521653045
9780511544071
0511544073
9780521041737
0521041732

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