Sex and the brain : a reader / edited by Gillian Einstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Einstein, Gillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex differences.

Sex (Biology).

Sexual dimorphism (Animals).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (853 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation This collection of foundational papers on sex differences in the brain traces the development of a much-invoked, fast-growing young field at the intersection of brain and behavior. The reader is introduced to the meaning and nature of sexual dimorphisms, the mechanisms and consequences of steroid hormone action, and the impact of the field on interpretations of sexuality and gender. Building on each other in point-counterpoint fashion, the papers tell a fascinating story of an emerging science working out its core assumptions. Experimental and theoretical papers, woven together by editor's introductions, open a window onto knowledge in the making and a vigorous debate between reductionist and pluralist interpreters. Five major sections include papers on conceptual and methodological background, central nervous system dimorphisms, mechanisms for creating dimorphisms, dimorphisms and cognition, and dimorphisms and identity. Each section builds from basic concepts to early experiments, from experimental models to humans, and from molecules to mind. Papers by such leading scholars as Arthur Arnold, Frank Beach, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Doreen Kimura, Simon LeVay, Bruce McEwen, Michael Merzenich, Bertram O'Malley, Geoffrey Raisman, and Dick Swaab, illustrate a rich blend of perspectives, approaches, methods, and findings. Sex and the Brain will show students how a scientific paper can be analyzed from many perspectives, and supply them with critical tools for judging a rapidly emerging science in a contentious area.

Contents:

Sexually dimorphic behavior : definition and the organizational hypothesis / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen

Sex differences in behavior : rodents, birds, and primates / Robert W. Goy and Bruce S. McEwen

Female mating behavior shown by male rats after administration of testosterone propionate / Frank A. Beach

Masculine copulatory behavior in intact and castrated female rats / Frank A. Beach and Priscilla Rasquin

An urge to explain the incomprehensible : Geoffrey Harris and the discovery of the neural control of the pituitary gland / G. Raisman

The induction of ovulation in the rabbit, by electrical stimulation of the hypothalmo-hypophysial mechanism / G.W. Harris

Proliferative capacity of the hypophysial portal vessels / G.W. Harris and Dora Jacobsohn

The effect of intrapituitary infusion of median eminence and other brain extracts on anterior pituitary gonadotrophic secretion / H.J. Campbell, G. Feuer and G.W. Harris

Sexual differentiation of the central nervous system / Neil J. McClusky and Frederick Naftolin

A gene from the human sex-determining region encodes a protein with homology to a conserved DNA-binding motif / Andrew H. Sinclair ... [et al.]

Molecular basis of mammalian sexual determination : activation of Mullerian inhibiting substance gene expression by SRY / Christopher M. Haqq ... [et al.]

Exchange of terminal portions of X- and Y- Chromosomal short arms in human XX males / David C. Page, Laura G. Brown and Albert de la Chapelle

Steroid 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in man : an inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism / Julianne Imperato-McGinley ... [et al.]

Phenotypic features, androgen receptor binding, and mutational analysis in 278 clinical cases reported as androgen insensitivity syndrome / S.F. Ahmed ... [et al.]

47,XXY female with testicular feminization and positive SRY : a case report / Eloisa Saavedra-Castillo ... [et al.]

The five sexes : why male and female are not enough / Anne Fausto-Sterling

Estrogen formation in the mammalian brain : possible role of aromatase in sexual differentiation of the hippocampus and neocortex / Neil J. MacLusky ... [et al.]

Molecular mechanisms of action of steroid/thyroid receptor superfamily/ Ming-Jer Tsai and Bert W. O'Malley

Inhibition of rat sexual behavior by antisense oligonucleotides to the progesterone receptor / Shailaja K. Mani ... [et al.]

Hormonal regulation of hypothalamic gene expression : identification of multiple novel estrogen induced genes / Simon W. Law ... [et al.]

Estrogen resistance caused by a mutation in the estrogen-receptor gene in a man / Eric P. Smith ... [et al.]

Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig / Charles H. Phoenix ... [et al.]

Hormones and sexual behavior / William C. Young, Robert W. Goy and Charles H. Phoenix

Neonatal androgens influence the social play of prepubescent rats / Michael J. Meany and Jane Stewart

Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain / Fernando Nottebohm and Arthur P. Arnold

Testosterone triggers growth of brain vocal control nuclei in adult female canaries / Fernando Nottebohm

Altered perception of species-specific song by female birds after lesions of a forebrain nucleus / Eliot A. Brenowitz

Hormone accumulation in a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus of the rat spinal cord / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold

Hormonal control of a developing neuromuscular system. 1, Complete demasculinization of the male rat spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus using the anti-androgen flutamide / S. Marc Breedlove and Arthur P. Arnold

Sexual dimorphism in human and canine spinal cord : Role of early androgen / Nancy G. Forger and S. Marc Breedlove

Sexual dimorphism in the neuropil of the preoptic area of the rat and its dependence on neonatal androgen / G. Raisman and P.M. Field

Sex difference in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski

Evidence for a morphological sex difference within the medial preoptic area of the rat brain / R.A. Gorski ... [et al.]

A sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human brain / D.F. Swaab and E. Fliers

Two sexually dimorphic cell groups in the human brain / Laura S. Allen ... [et al.]

Effects of discrete lesions of the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area or other medial preoptic regions on the sexual behavior of male rats / Gary W. Arendash and Roger A. Gorski

Sexual behavior in male rhesus monkeys elicited by electrical stimulation of preoptic and hypothalamic areas / A.A. Perachio, L.D. Marr and M. Alexander

Medial preoptic and hypothalamic neuronal activity during sexual behavior of the male monkey / Y. Oomura, H. Yoshimatsu and S. Aou

Demonstration of a sexual dimorphism in the distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus of the rat / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski

Reversal of the sexually dimorphic distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive fibers in the medial preoptic nucleus by treatment with perinatal androgen / R.B. Simerly, L.W. Swanson and R.A. Gorski

Sex differences in vasopressin and other neurotransmitter systems in the brain / G.J. De Vries, R.M. Buijs and F.W. van Leeuwen

Distribution of androgen target cells in rat forebrain and pituitary after (³H)-dihydrotestosterone administration / Madhabananda Sar and Walter E. Stumpf

Developmental changes in estrogen receptors in mouse cerebral cortex between birth and postweaning : studied by autoradiography with 11[beta]-methoxy-16[alpha]-(¹²⁵I)iodoestradiol / Paul J. Shughrue ... [et al.]

A previously uncharacterized role for estrogen receptor [beta] : defeminization of male brain and behavior / Andrea E. Kudwa ... [et al.]

ER-X : a novel, plasma-membrane-associated, putative estrogen receptor that is regulated during development and following ischemic brain injury / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand ... [et al.]

Sex steroids and the development of the newborn mouse hypothalamus and preoptic area in vitro : implications for sexual differentiation / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand

Sex steroids promote neurite growth in mesencephalic tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive neurons in vitro / Ingrid Riesert ... [et al.]

Estrogen receptors colocalize with low-affinity nerve growth factor receptors in cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain / C. Dominique Toran-Allerand ... [et al.]

Early estrogen-induced nuclear changes in rat hypothalamic ventromedial neurons : an ultrastructural and morphometric analysis / Kathryn J. Jones, Donald W. Pfaff, and Bruce S. McEwen

5,7-dihydroxytryptamine and gonadal steroid manipulation alter spine density in ventromedial hypothalamic neurons / Maya Frankfurt and Bruce S. McEwen

Estradiol mediates fluctuation in hippocampal synapse density during the estrous cycle in the adult rat / Catherine S. Woolley and Bruce S. McEwen

Sex differences of hypothalamic prolactin cells develop independently of the presence of sex steroids / Cordian Beyer ... [et al.]

A model system for study of sex chromosome effects on sexually dimorphic neural and behavioral traits / Geert J. De Vries ... [et al.]

Steroid hormones and the brain : linking "nature" and "nurture" / Bruce S. McEwen

Motherhood modifies magnocellular neuronal interrelationships in functionally meaningful ways / Barbara K. Modney and Glenn I. Hatton

Alterations of the cortical representation of the rat ventrum induced by nursing behavior / Christian Xerri, Judith M. Stern and Michael M. Merzenich

Sex-dependent behavioral effects of cerebral cortical lesions in the developing rhesus monkey / Patricia S. Goldman ... [et al.]

Sex and the single hemisphere : specialization of the right hemisphere for spatial processing / Sandra F. Witelson

Sex differences in the effects of unilateral brain damage on intelligence / James Inglis and J.S. Lawson

Left-handedness : association with immune disease, migraine, and developmental learning disorder / Norman Geschwind and Peter Behan

Cognitive abilities in androgen-insensitive subjects : comparison with control males and females from the same kindred / Julianne Imperato-McGinley ... [et al.]

Sex differences in regional cerebral glucose metabolism during a resting state / Ruben C. Gur ... [et al.]

Sex differences in cerebral organization for speech and praxic functions / Doreen Kimura

Women have greater density of neurons in posterior temporal cortex / S.F. Witelson, I.I. Glezer and D.L. Kigar

Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language / Bennett A. Shaywitz ... [et al.]

Sex differences in functional brain activation during a lexical visual field task / Susan L. Rossell ... [et al.]

Sexual dimorphism in the human corpus callosum / Christine de Lacoste-Utamsing and Ralph L. Holloway

No sex-related differences in human corpus callosum based on magnetic resonance imagery / Jeffrey S. Oppenheim ... [et al.]

Sexual dimorphism of the human corpus callosum from three independent samples : relative size of the corpus callosum / Ralph L. Holloway ... [et al.]

Sexual dimorphism of the anterior commissure and massa intermedia of the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski

Sex differences in the corpus callosum of the living human being / Laura S. Allen ... [et al.]

Disruption of estrogen receptor [beta] gene impairs spatial learning in female mice / Emilie F. Rissman ... [et al.]

Spatial memory performance in androgen insensitive male rats / Bryan A. Jones and Neil V. Watson

Androgens and gender role behaviour in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia / Froukje M.E. Slijper

Gender dysphoria and gender change in androgen insensitivity or micropenis / Tom Mazur

Correlation between genotype, phenotype, and sex of rearing in 111 patients with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome / A. Deeb ... [et al.]

Heterosexual, autosexual and social behavior of adult male rhesus monkeys with medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamic lesions / Jefferson C. Slimp, Benjamin L. Hart and Robert W. Goy

Sexual orientation after prenatal exposure to estrogens / Anke A. Ehrhardt ... [et al.]

An enlarged suprachiasmatic nucleus in homosexual men / D.F. Swaab and M.A. Hofman

A difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men / Simon LeVay

Sexual orientation and the size of the anterior commissure in the human brain / Laura S. Allen and Roger A. Gorski

Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men / Ivanka Savic, Hans Berglund and Per Lindström

Psychosexual disorders in children and adolescents / Kenneth J. Zucker and Richard Green

Estrogen positive feedback on LH secretion in transsexuality / L.J.G. Gooren ... [et al.]

A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality / Jiang-Ning Zhou ... [et al.]

Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus / Frank P.M. Kruijver ... [et al.]

Historical origins of modern research on hormones and behavior / Frank A. Beach.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786612099168

9780262293594

0262293595

9781282099166

1282099167

9780262272247

0262272245

9781435606012

1435606019

OCLC:

232160026