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Drive : neurobiological and molecular mechanisms of sexual motivation / Donald W. Pfaff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfaff, Donald W., 1939- author.
- Series:
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience series
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex (Biology).
- Sexual excitement.
- Neuropsychology.
- Neuroendocrinology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What arouses an animal or human from an inactive, non-responsive state to a condition of activity and responsiveness? What are the biological mechanisms for this change? In this book Donald W. Pfaff focuses on a reproductive behavior typical of many female animals. Sensory stimuli from the male trigger responses in a well-defined circuit of nerve cells. At the top of the circuit, certain nerve cells receive and retain sex hormones such as estrogens and progesterone. As a result, specific genes in these nerve cells are turned on at specific times, affecting in turn the rest of the neural circuit and causing a state of sexual responsiveness.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0585124019
- 9780585124018
- 9780262281546
- 0262281546
- OCLC:
- 44963864
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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