Testosterone

Joe Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Cambridge University and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His areas of expertise include the role of hormones in the ability of the adult brain to make new nerve cells (neurons) and repair the brain; how hormones regulate behavior; the neuroscience of stress; how hormones, genes and the social and psychological environment interact to promote the risk for depression; and studies on the way that hormones and genes influence financial decision-making. He has authored (and co-authored) around 250 scientific papers on these topics, and is the author of The Minder Brain: How your brain keeps you alive, protects you from danger, and ensures that you reproduce (World Scientific Press, 2007).

• Preface 1: Testosterone and the evolution of mankind 2: What is testosterone? 3: Testosterone makyth man 4: Testosterone and sex 5: Testosterone and aggression 6: Controlling testosterone 7: Testosterone, winning, losing and making money 8: Testosterone and war 9: Testosterone in women 10: Testosterone and the brain References Index

'Hormones' and 'a gripping read' rarely feature in the same sentence, but perhaps surprisingly to the science non-aficionados among us, Testosterone achieves precisely this: it whisks the reader through the multifaceted roles of testosterone with clarity and intriguing examples... Herbert has managed to produce a solid didactic experience in some of the biological aspects of sex and gender for those interested in biology as such, and also for those more inclined to wider gender issues alike.