Hormones and Behaviour: A Psychological Approach » (New Edition)

Nick Neave is Reader in Psychology at Northumbria University.

A detailed introduction examining the fascinating science of how hormones influence brain structure and function.

List of diagrams vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgements x

1 Background to psychobiology 1

2 Hormones and the endocrine system 22

3 Behavioural endocrinology 48

4 Neurological effects of hormones 69

5 Typical sexual determination/differentiation 85

6 Atypical sexual differentiation 109

7 Neural differentiation 135

8 Reproductive/sexual behaviours 154

9 Attachment/parental behaviours 191

10 Aggressive/competitive behaviours 224

11 Sex steroids and cognition 248

References 283

Index 345