Drive
Neurobiological And Molecular Mechanisms Of Sexual Motivation
- Editore:
Mit Press Ltd
- Collana:
- Drive
- EAN:
9780262161848
- ISBN:
0262161842
- Pagine:
- 316
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Drive
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.
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