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Brain gender / Melissa Hines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hines, Melissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neuropsychology.
- Sex differences.
- Psychoneuroendocrinology.
- Neuroendocrinology.
- Psychophysiology.
- Sex Characteristics.
- Brain--drug effects.
- Gonadal Steroid Hormones--physiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neuropsychology.
- Sex Characteristics.
- Brain--drug effects.
- Gonadal Steroid Hormones--physiology.
- Neuroendocrinology.
- Psychophysiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do biological factors, such as gonadal hormones, determine our sexual destiny after our genes are in place? Do they make men aggressive, or women nurturing? This book traces the factors that influence the brain, beginning with testosterone and other hormones during prenatal life.
- Contents:
- 1. Sex Differences in Human Behavior
- 2. Is It a Girl or Is It a Boy?
- 3. The Sexual Animal
- 4. Sex and the Animal Brain
- 5. Gonadal Hormones and Human Sexuality
- 6. Sex and Play
- 7. Androgen and Aggression
- 8. Hormones and Parenting
- 9. Androgen, Estrogen, and Cognition
- 10. Sex and the Human Brain
- 11. Engendering the Brain.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-295) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029330-6
- 1-4294-3819-3
- 0-19-973100-4
- 0-19-508410-1
- 1-280-84589-9
- OCLC:
- 79843797
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