Bookvolume editors, Eric Fliers, Márta Korbonits, and Johannes A. Romijn.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Genetic aspects of hypothalamic and pituitary gland development
Ch. 2. Neuroendocrinology of pregnancy and parturition
Ch. 3. Disorders of water metabolism: diabetes insipidus and the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
Ch. 4. The role of oxytocin and vasopressin in emotional and social behaviors
Ch. 5. Corticotropin-releasing hormone and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in psychiatric disease
Ch. 6. Genetic aspects of human obesity
Ch. 7. Sleep characteristics and insulin sensitivity in humans
Ch. 8. Hypothalamic-pituitary hormones during critical illness: a dynamic neuroendocrine response
Ch. 9. Central regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis: focus on clinical aspects
Ch. 10. Evaluation of pituitary function
Ch. 11. Imaging of pituitary pathology
Ch. 12. Nonfunctioning pituitary tumors
Ch. 13. Hyperprolactinemia and prolactinoma
Ch. 14. Acromegaly
Ch. 15. Cushing's disease
Ch. 16. Craniopharyngioma
Ch. 17. Rathke's cleft cyst
Ch. 18. Alternative causes of hypopituitarism: traumatic brain injury, cranial irradiation and infections
Ch. 19. Surgical approach to pituitary tumors
Ch. 20. Medical approach to pituitary tumors
Ch. 21. Radiation therapy in the management of pituitary adenomas
Ch. 22. Nelson syndrome: definition and management
Ch. 23. Familial pituitary tumors
Ch. 24. Long-term effects of treatment of pituitary adenomas
Ch. 25. Neuroendocrine mechanisms in athletes
Ch. 26. Uncertainties in endocrine substitution therapy for central hypocortisolism
Ch. 27. Uncertainties in endocrine substitution therapy for central endocrine insufficiencies: hypothyroidism
Ch. 28. Uncertainties in endocrine substitution therapy for central endocrine insufficiencies: growth hormone deficiency
Ch. 29. Autoimmune hypophysitis: new developments
Index.