Hormones, Gender and the Aging Brain (eBook, PDF)

The Endocrine Basis of Geriatric Psychiatry
Redaktion: Morrison, Mary F.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511033117
• Artikelnr.: 38194083

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Overview: 1.
Summary chapter. The endocrine basis of geriatric psychiatry: an
integrative approach John E. Morley; 2. Overview of steroids in the aging
brain Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato; Part II. Hormones and Mental Health in the
Elderly: 3. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in aging: preclinical
and clinical studies John W. Kasckow, Thomas D. Geracioti Jr, Marta
Pisarska, Ajit Regmi, Dewleen G. Baker and James J. Mulchahey; 4. The
hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis Gabriel K. Tsuboyama; 5. Estrogen and
depression in aging women Mary F. Morrison and Kathryn Tweedy; 6. The role
of testosterone in male depression Stuart N. Seidman and Steven P. Roose;
7. Dehydroepiandrosterone in aging and mental health Owen M. Wolkowitz,
Patricia D. Kroboth, Victor I. Reus and Tanya J. Fabian; 8. Sex hormones,
cognition and dementia in the elderly Kristine Yaffe; 9. Effects of
estrogen on basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and cognition: implications
for brain aging and dementia in women Robert B. Gibbs; 10. Gender and
schizophrenia Laurie A. Lindamer, M. Jackuelyn Harris, Julie Akiko Gladsjo,
Robert Heaton, Jane S.Paulsen, Shelley C. Heaton and Dilip V. Jeste; 11.
Sex steroids and anxiety disorders Teresa A. Pigott; 12. Gender and
hormonal factors in pain and pain inhibition Wendy F. Sternberg; Part III.
Effects of Hormones and Behavior on Immune Function: 13. Estrogens, stress
and psychoneuroimmunology in women over the lifespan Mary H. Burleson,
Susan Robinson-Whelan, Ronald Glaser and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser; 14.
Gender differences in immune function at the cellular level Eva Redei and
Suresh G. Shelat; Part IV. Hormones and Gender Differences in Psychotropic
Drug Metabolism: 15. Gender differences in psychotropic drug metabolism
Bruce G. Pollock; 16. The influence of progesterone on the pharmacokinetics
and pharmacodynamics of gamma-aminobutyric acid-active drugs Patricia D.
Kroboth and James W. McAuley; Index.