Stress: Neuroendocrinology and Neurobiology: Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 2

by George Fink (Editor)

Overview

Stress: Neuroendocrinology and Neurobiology: Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 2, focuses on neuroendocrinology, the discipline that deals with the way that the brain controls hormonal secretion, and in turn, the way that hormones control the brain. There have been significant advances in our understanding of neuroendocrine molecular and epigenetic mechanisms, especially in the way in which stress-induced hormonal and neurochemical changes affect brain plasticity, neuronal connectivity, and synaptic function.

The book features the topic of epigenetics, and how it enables stress and other external factors to affect genetic transmission and expression without changes in DNA sequence. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and relevance to human disorders, the concepts and data in this volume offer the reader cutting-edge information on the neuroendocrinology of stress.

Volume 2 is of prime interest to neuroscientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, and graduate students in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry, and in some areas of the social sciences, including stress and its management in the workplace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128021750
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/09/2017
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Fink is Honorary Professor in the University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Formerly, he was Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Before returning to Melbourne in 2003, Dr. Fink was University Lecturer in Human Anatomy and Fellow in Physiology and Medicine at Brasenose College and the University of Oxford and served for nearly 20 years as CEO and Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh. He gained distinction through his seminal research discoveries in neuroendocrinology and psychopharmacology published in over 360 scientific papers. Dr. Fink served as President of the European Neuroendocrine Association. His distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Biological Society, Fellow of the Physiological Society, and Honorary Member of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Fink was Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh, delivered the inaugural Geoffrey Harris Prize Lecture of the British Physiological Society, and the Wolfson Lecture. In 1979 he was awarded the Royal Society - Israel Academy Exchange Fellowship which enabled him to spend a research year at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. In 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. His membership of learned societies includes Emeritus member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Endocrine Society and the Genetics Society of America.
Dr. Fink has edited several scientific books with Elsevier, including Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2011), and most notably the 4-volume second edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2007) on which this new Handbook of Stress series is based. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2000) which was awarded the 2001 British Medical Association commendation for its contribution to Mental Health. The first volume of his Handbook of Stress series, entitled “Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior”, received the BMA High Commendation in the Health and Social Care category as one of the top titles in its discipline.

Table of Contents

Part I. Neuroendocrine Control of the Stress Response
1. Stress Neuroendocrinology: Highlights and Controversies
2. Limbic Forebrain Modulation of Neuroendocrine Responses to Emotional Stress
3. Adrenergic Neurons in the CNS
4. Noradrenergic Control of Arousal and Stress
5. Evolution and Phylogeny of the Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Family of Peptides
6. Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Urocortin Receptors
7. Tracking the Coupling of External Signals to Intracellular Programs Controlling Peptide Synthesis and Release in Hypothalamic Neuroendocrine Neurons
8. Neural Circuitry of Stress, Fear, and Anxiety: Focus on Extended Amygdala Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Systems
9. Vasopressin as a Stress Hormone
10. Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
11. The Role of MicroRNAs in Stress-Induced Psychopathologies
12. Stress Reactions Orchestrate Parasympathetic Functioning and Inflammation Under Diverse Cholinergic Manipulations
13. Early Life Stress- and Sex-Dependent Effects on Hippocampal Neurogenesis
14. Stress, Alcohol and Epigenetic Transmission
15. Stress, Panic, and Central Serotonergic Inhibition
16. Neuroendocrinology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Focus on the HPA Axis
17. Stress and Major Depression: Neuroendocrine and Biopsychosocial Mechanisms
18. Telomeres and Early Life Stress

Part II. Endocrine Systems and Mechanisms in Stress Control
19. Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Brain Development in Rodent Models
20. Aging and Adrenocortical Factors
21. Aldosterone and Mineralocorticoid Receptors
22. Androgen Action and Stress
23. Angiotensin—Encyclopedia of Stress
24. Stress, Angiotensin, and Cognate Receptors
25. Annexin A1
26. Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Antagonists
27. Antidepressant Actions on Glucocorticoid Receptors
28. Lipids and Lipoproteins
29. Corticosteroid Receptors
30. Glucocorticoid Receptor: Genetics and Epigenetics in Veterans With PTSD
31. Stress Effects on Learning and Memory in Humans
32. Sex Differences in Chronic Stress: Role of Estradiol in Cognitive Resilience
33. Rapid and Slow Effects of Corticosteroid Hormones on Hippocampal Activity
34. 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases
35. Stress, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 Diabetes
36. Steroid Hydroxylases
37. Manipulating the Brain Corticosteroid Receptor Balance: Focus on Ligands and Modulators
38. Stress and the Central Circadian Clock
39. Nongenomic Effects of Glucocorticoids: Translation From Physiology to Clinic

Part III. Diurnal, Seasonal, and Ultradian Systems
40. Circadian Rhythm Effects on Cardiovascular and Other Stress-Related Events
41. Seasonal Variation in Stress Responses
42. Seasonal Rhythms
43. Ultradian Rhythms

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A series of references on stress, the second of which focuses on the relationship between the brain and its governing hormones