Interventions infobox Name PAGENAME Image ICD10 ICD9 ICD9proc 07.6 MeshID D007016 OtherCodes Hypophysectomy is the surgical removal of the pituitary gland hypophysis pituitary gland . It is most commonly performed to treat tumors, especially craniopharyngioma tumors. ref cite journal last Jaffe first CA title Clinically non functioning pituitary adenoma. journal Pituitary year 2006 volume 9 issue 4 pages 317 21 pmid 17082898 ref Sometimes it is used to treat Cushing s syndrome due to pituitary adenoma . ref cite journal last Buchfelder first M coauthors Schlaffer, S title Pituitary surgery for Cushing s disease. journal Neuroendocrinology year 2010 volume 92 Suppl 1 pages 102 6 pmid 20829628 ref It is also applied in neuroscience s in experiments with lab animals to understand the functioning of hypophysis. Medications that are given as hormone replacement therapy following a complete hypophysectomy removal of the pituitary gland are often glucocorticoids . Addisons can occur and hyperlipidemia with affect all organs in the body. Complications Hypophysectomy performed at any age causes atrophy of the thyroid and adrenal gland s as well as asthenia and cachexia . When the procedure is performed before sexual maturity, the reproductive tract remains undeveloped and non functional. There is also a general lack of growth. If performed after sexual maturity, there will be a loss of reproductive function along with atrophy of gonads and accessory reproductive structures. References Reflist External links http www.surgeryencyclopedia.com Fi La Hypophysectomy.html Encyclopedia of Surgery Neuro procedures Endocrine system intervention Ectomy, stomy, and otomy oncology stub surgery stub Category Surgical oncology Category Surgical removal procedures nl Hypofysectomie ... more details
Temporal discounting refers to the tendency of people to discount rewards as they approach a temporal horizon in the future or the past i.e., become so distant in time that they cease to be valuable or to have additive effects . To put it another way, it is a tendency to give greater value to rewards as they move away from their temporal horizons and towards the now . For instance, a nicotine deprived smoker may highly value a cigarette available any time in the next 6 hours but assign little or no value to a cigarette available in 6 months ref Impulsivity and cigarette smoking delay discounting in current, never, and ex smokers. Bickel, W. Odum, A., & Madden, G. Psychopharmacology. 1999 Oct 146 4 447 454. ref . This term is used in intertemporal economics, intertemporal choice , reward system neurobiology of reward and Decision making Neuroscience perspective decision making , microeconomics and recently neuroeconomics ref Cultural neuroeconomics of intertemporal choice. Takahashi, Taiki, Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Cannas, Sergio A., Makino, T., Fukui, H., & Kitayama, Shinobu. Neuroendocrinology Letters. 2009 30 2 185 191. ref . It is also known as delay discounting or time discounting. Traditional models of economics assumed that the discounting function is exponential discounting exponential in time leading to a monotonic decrease in preference with increased time delay however, more recent neuroeconomic models suggest a hyperbolic discounting hyperbolic discount function which can address the phenomenon of preference reversal ref A Discounting framework for choice with delayed and probabilistic rewards. Myerson, J. & Green, L., 2004 Sept 130 5 769 792. ref Preference reversal Offered a choice of 100 today and 110 in a month, subjects might prefer to have 100 today. However, if the delay for both rewards is increased by a year i.e., subjects are offered a choice of 100 in a year or 110 in a year and one month , they might prefer the 110. fact date August 2010 See als ... more details
Infobox journal cover File PNBcover.png editor Anton Scheurink , Randall R. Sakai discipline behavioral neuroscience , physiology abbreviation Physiol. Behav. publisher Elsevier country frequency 15 year history 1966 present impact 2.891 impact year 2010 website http www.elsevier.com wps find journaldescription.cws home 525487 description description OCLC 01714854 LCCN CODEN PHBHA4 ISSN 0031 9384 eISSN 1873 507X Portal Neuroscience Physiology & Behavior is a scientific journal published by Elsevier . It is an official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society . ref name about cite web url http www.elsevier.com wps find journaldescription.cws home 525487 description description title Physiology & Behavior Elsevier format work accessdate 2009 04 22 ref The journal publishes Peer review peer reviewed articles in the fields of behavioral neuroendocrinology , psychoneuroimmunology , learning and memory, ingestion, social behavior , and studies related to the mechanisms of psychopathology . It was established in 1966. Abstracting and indexing Physiology and Behavior is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS , Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Abstracts , Current Contents Life Sciences, MEDLINE , PsycINFO , Science Citation Index , Scopus , and PubMed . ref name PNB indexing cite web url http www.elsevier.com wps find journalabstracting.cws home 525487 abstracting abstracting title Physiology and Behavior Indexing Information format work accessdate 2009 05 10 ref According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 2.891. ref name WoS cite web url http isiwebofknowledge.com title Web of Science year 2011 accessdate 2011 06 30 ref Article categories The journal publishes articles in the following categories empirical Research articles Review s Short Communications Theoretical Articles Book review s References Reflist External links Official http www.elsevier.com wps find journaldescription.cws home 525487 description description ... more details
Neuroendocrinology. ref Jill B. Becker, S. Marc Breedlove, David Crews and Margaret M. McCarthy ... author https www.ssbne.org Summer School of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Co Founder http neuroscience.msu.edu ... www.sbn.org Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology http www.sfn.org Society for Neuroscience ... more details
strategies for capricious environments. Animal Behaviour . 66 000 000. Department of Neuroendocrinology ... Homeostasis Category Immune system Category Neuroendocrinology Category Stress it Allostasi ... more details
Infobox scientist name Jaroslav Flegr image Jaroslav Flegr portrait.jpg image size birth place death date death place death cause nationality Czechs Czech field Parasitology work institution Charles University in Prague alma mater doctoral advisor known for research into toxoplasmosis prizes Jaroslav Flegr is a professor of biology at Charles University in Prague . ref http www.natur.cuni.cz flegr Jaroslav Flegr University website ref He is a parasitology parasitologist , Evolution evolutionary biologist , the author of the book Frozen Evolution ref name Hall2009 Cite journal title A review of Frozen Evolution Or That s Not the Way It is, Mr. Darwin, edited by Jaroslav Flegr url http www3.interscience.wiley.com journal 121641687 abstract year 2009 author Hall, B.K. journal Evolution & Development pages 126 129 volume 11 issue 1 accessdate 2009 06 24 doi 10.1111 j.1525 142X.2008.00310.x ref and member of the editorial board of Neuroendocrinology Letters . ref http www.nel.edu EditBoard.htm Board of Editors Neuroendocrinology Letters website ref His work on the influence of toxoplasmosis infection on Personality type personality , ref cite journal author Flegr J title Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior journal Schizophr Bull volume 33 issue 3 pages 757 60 year 2007 month May pmid 17218612 pmc 2526142 doi 10.1093 schbul sbl074 ref sex ratio s, ref cite journal author Kankov S, Sulc J, Nouzov K, Fajfrl k K, Frynta D, Flegr J title Women infected with parasite Toxoplasma have more sons journal Naturwissenschaften volume 94 issue 2 pages 122 7 year 2007 month February pmid 17028886 doi 10.1007 s00114 006 0166 2 ref and the risks of road accidents , ref cite journal author Flegr J, Havl cek J, Kodym P, Mal M, Smahel Z title Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis a retrospective case control study journal BMC Infect. Dis. volume 2 pages 11 year 2002 month July pmid 12095427 pmc 117239 doi 10.1186 1471 2334 2 11 ref ref cite journal ... more details
Editor for Neuroendocrinology, and a member of the Editorial Board of Endocrinology and The American ... 1998 Graduate Student, Reproductive Neuroendocrinology, Monash University and Prince Henry s Institute ... more details
content view 31 11 Depression, stress and the adrenal axis. The British Society for Neuroendocrinology ... Hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis Neuroendocrinology Hypothalamus Stress medicine Stress Allostatic ... page on HPA axis Endocrine system Category Neuroendocrinology Category Attention Category Attention ... more details
The Kluge Scholars Council is a body of twenty one distinguished international scholars, convened by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to the John W. Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize . Through discussion and reflection, the Council assists in implementing an American tradition linking the activities of thinkers and doers, those who are engaged in the world of ideas with those engaged in the world of affairs. Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress, under a separate Charter appended to the Kluge Center s Charter. Current members Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Baruch Blumberg is Senior Advisor for Biology to the Administrator of NASA and Director of the Astrobiology Institute. Judith Margaret Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. Sara Castro Klaren is a professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Robert William Fogel is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business, director of the Center for Population Economics, and a member of the Department of Economics and of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Bronislaw Geremek is the former Foreign Minister of Poland and a scholar of medieval European history especially of France and Poland. Philip W. Gold M.D., is chief of the clinical research program of the Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch CNE at the National Institute of Health. Toru Haga is President and Professor of Comparative Literature and Culture at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and International Researc ... more details
The INAH 3 is the third wiktionary interstitial interstitial nucleus neuroanatomy nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus . Part of the sexually dimorphic nucleus , the INAH 3 is significantly larger in males than in females irrespective of age. ref cite journal author1 Allen LS author2 Hines M author3 Shryne JE author4 Gorski RA title Two sexually dimorphic cell groups in the human brain. journal J Neurosci year 1989 volume 9 issue 2 pages 497 506 pmid 2918374 ref Homologues of the INAH 3 have been observed taking a direct role in sexual behavior in rhesus monkeys, ref cite journal author1 Slimp JC author2 Hart BL author3 Goy RW title Heterosexual, autosexual and social behavior of adult male rhesus monkeys with medial preoptic anterior hypothalamic lesions. journal Brain Res. date Feb 17 1978 volume 142 issue 1 pages 105 22 pmid 414825 ref sheep, ref cite journal author Roselli C, Larkin k, Resko J, Stellflug J, and Stormshak F title Volume of a Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus in the Ovine Medial Preoptic Area Anterior Hypothalamus Varies with Sexual Partner Preference journal Endocrinology volume 145 issue 2 pages 478 483 year 2004 pmid 14525915 doi 10.1210 en.2003 1098 ref and rats. ref cite journal author Balthazart J, Ball G title Topography in the preoptic region Differential regulation of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviors journal Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology volume 28 pages 161 178 year 2007 pmid 17624413 doi 10.1016 j.yfrne.2007.05.003 issue 4 pmc 2100381 ref big Research big br A scientific paper authored by Simon LeVay and published in the journal Science journal Science suggests that the region is an important biological Neural substrate substrate with regards to sexual orientation . This article reported the INAH 3 to be smaller on average in homosexual men than in heterosexual men, and in fact has approximately the same size in homosexual men as in heterosexual women. ref Central Nervous System Dimorphisms Related to Reproductive Behaviors D ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2008 St. Vincent s Psychiatric Hospital, Fairview is a small psychiatric hospital in Republic of Ireland Ireland . It is located in the north central part of Dublin city and was founded in 1857 by The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul , who were responsible for its operation until 2001. Although it retains a small private ward, its main role has evolved to provide in patient and day patient services for the Health Service Executive , Ireland s state health provider. A six bedded inpatient unit for 16 18 year olds was opened in 2009. There is also a day patient adolescent service based on the campus. Dublin city adult psychiatric services are sectorised with St. Vincent s providing services for the North Inner city, Fairview, Clontarf, Drumcondra, Dublin Drumcondra , Millmount, Beaumount and Ballymun areas. A psychotherapy service is also based on the campus. There is a research centre specialising in Neuroendocrinology . The hospital provides undergraduate experience for medical students from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and University College, Dublin . Non consultant hospital doctors are prepared for membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists . It is an examination centre for that college and for the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. Nursing students from Dublin City University are also trained. Although it provides services for the HSE, St. Vincent s remains a charitable institution with a Board of Management and a panel of Trustees. Located off the Richmond Road on Convent Avenue, close to Dublin city centre the hospital is on extensive grounds which provide welcome relief for wildlife.Its lands are frequented by Curlews, Kestrels and Herons as well as all the common urban birdlife. Unusually for an institution so close to the city centre, cattle are still grazed on its lands. It is expected that the main admission unit will be moved to the nearby Mater Miseric ... more details
Gustave Roussy 24 November 1874 &ndash 30 September 1948 was a Swiss French neuropathologist who was born in Vevey , Switzerland. Career As interne des h pitaux in Paris, Roussy worked under neurologist s Pierre Marie and Joseph Jules Dejerine , and in 1907 earned his doctorate from the University of Paris . In 1925 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy at the Facult de M decine de Paris Facult de M decine , and in 1930 became director of the Institut du Cancer . In 1933 he was dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Paris . Roussy made several contributions in the field of neurology , in particular his investigations on the role of the thalamus and the autonomic nervous system . During World War I he was chief of neurology of the 7th Military Region Besan on , and published extensively on his experiences with battle related wounds. He was the author or co author of a number of works on psychological and neuropsychological issues as a consequence of war. In 1946 he published a 1000 page monograph titled Trait de Neuroendocronologie in regards to his research in the field of neuroendocrinology . With Jean Camus 1872 1924 he performed important studies involving damage to the hypothalamus . Roussy was interested in the study and treatment of cancer . Today in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif is the Institut Gustave Roussy Institute Gustave Roussy , a private institution devoted to oncology . Eponyms Along with other physicians are three eponymous disorders named after him Darier Roussy Sarcoidosis sarcoid an uncommon subcutaneous granuloma found in sarcoidosis . Named with Ferdinand Jean Darier . Dejerine Roussy syndrome a syndrome caused by lesions of the posterior thalamus . It occurs in approximately 2 of all stroke patients. Named with Joseph Jules Dejerine . Roussy L vy disease spinocerebellar degeneration with muscular atrophy of the lower limbs, sensory ataxia , plus other symptoms. A hereditary disease that is usually first noticed ... more details
Infobox person name William Francis Ganong, Jr. image imagesize caption birth date birth date 1924 7 6 birth place Northampton, Massachusetts br United States flagicon USA death date death date and age 2007 12 23 1924 7 6 mf y death place Albany, California br United States flagicon USA resting place residence San Francisco, California education Harvard Medical School occupation Scientist, educator, writer spouse Ruth Jackson children Francis, Susan, Anna, James parents William Francis Ganong & br Anna Hobbet religion William Francis Ganong, Jr. July 6, 1924 ref http edrv.endojournals.org cgi content full 23 4 582 2002 bio ref December 23, 2007 ref http pub.ucsf.edu newsservices releases 200801073 Leading UCSF neuroendocrinologist and medical leader dies ref was a Harvard University Harvard educated United States American physiologist , and was one of the first scientists to trace how the brain controls important internal functions of the body. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts , the son of renowned botanist and Smith College professor, William Francis Ganong William Francis Ganong, Sr. . He was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center. A neuroendocrinology neuroendocrinologist , he was the Lange Professor of Physiology Emeritus at the University of California , San Francisco ref http www.osu.edu news lvl2 news story.php?id 551 2003 citation ref and served as the 50th president of The American Physiological Society , from 1977 to 1978. ref http www.the aps.org about pres introwfg.htm APS presidents ref In the course of his research, he discovered that blood pressure and fluid balance the salt and water levels in the body are regulated by hormones from the adrenal gland and the kidney , a key finding for developing ways to treat hypertension . He was also one o ... more details
Nabil G. Seidah , Post nominals country CAN CM OQ FRSC born 1949 is a Quebec Qu b cois scientist. Born in Egypt , he was educated at Cairo University , and subsequently at Georgetown University where he obtained his Ph.D in 1973. ref name ocav Cite web url http www.icav citav.ca viral global threat bios nabil seidah.php title Nabil G. Seidah work International Consortium on Anti Virals accessdate 26 December 2010 ref ref name rsc He emigrated to Canada and has been working at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal IRCM since 1974. ref name ocav He is the director of the laboratory of Biochemical Neuroendocrinology. ref name ocav Awards 1983 Marcel Pich Prize 1991 Made Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ref name crim Cite web url http www.ircm.qc.ca microsites Nseidah en title Director s biography work Clinical Research Institute of Montreal accessdate 26 December 2010 ref 1997 Made Officer of the Ordre national du Qu bec ref name crim 1999 Made member of the Order of Canada ref Cite web url http archive.gg.ca honours search recherche honours desc.asp?lang e&TypeID orc&id 3942 title Nabil G. Seidah, C.M., O.Q., Ph.D. work Governor General of Canada accessdate 26 December 2010 ref 2001 Winner of the McLaughlin medal ref name ocav ref name rsc Cite web url http www.rsc.ca awards The McLaughlin Medal winner.php TOC6 title Nabil G. Seidah, FRSC work Royal Society of Canada accessdate 26 December 2010 ref 2001 Winner of the L o Pariseau Prize ref name ocav References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Seidah, Nabil ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1949 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Seidah, Nabil Category 1949 births Category Living people Category Canadian scientists Category Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Category Members of the Order of Canada Category Officers of the National Order of Quebec Canada scientist stub fr Nabil Seidah ... more details
Barry Everitt ScD FRS FMedSci is master college Master of Downing College, Cambridge and a Professor of Behavioral neuroscience Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge . He graduated in Zoology and Psychology at Hull University , received a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham , and undertook post doctoral research at Birmingham and then at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm , with the eminent neuroanatomists Tomas H kfelt and Kjell Fuxe . He was appointed to the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge in 1974, became a Fellow of Downing College in 1976, a tenured University Lecturer and a Director of Studies in Medicine at Downing in 1979. He has served on several national and international advisory committees and has been President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, the European Brain and Behaviour Society and the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society FRS , a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences FMedSci , and has been awarded honorary degree Honorary D.Sc. degrees by his alma mater almae matres , Birmingham University and Hull University. ref name Everitt07 cite web url http www.dow.cam.ac.uk dow server news Everitt07.html title Downing College Downing News Everitt honoured with fellowship of the Royal Society work accessdate 2009 09 15 ref ref name Everitt08 cite web url http www.dow.cam.ac.uk dow server news Everitt08.html title Downing College Downing News Everitt honoured with fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences work accessdate 2009 09 15 ref Everitt has been editor in chief of the European Journal of Neuroscience and is a reviewing editor for Science journal Science . In 2011, he received the American Psychological Association s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society s Distinguished Achievement Award . His research has spanned many aspects of brain function, from neuroanatomy to neuroendocrinology a ... more details
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