Hormones, Gender and the Aging Brain

The Endocrine Basis of Geriatric Psychiatry

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av Mary F. Morrison, Mary F. (University of Pennsylvania) Morrison, Morrison Mary F.

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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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Utgivningsdatum2007-09-10
Mått170 x 243 x 18 mm
Vikt606 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor380
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521041737

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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.