SCIGEN 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ovulation, Sexual Differentiation, Bulbospongiosus Muscle
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Chapter 1: the study of behavioural endocrinology: study of interaction between hormones and behaviour. Cells with these specific receptors are known as target cells for the hormone. Changes in rate of function most common: done till page 10. And they found that these brain organization diff could be reversed through early hormonal manipulation. Tough critics of the organizational and activation hypothesis were convinced bcuz of this. Could affect neuronal survival by either promoting or protecting against cell death. Influence connectivity: that is, hormones might change dendritic branching and patterning or axonal projections. Volumetric refer to size differences in the brains of males and females in specific brain regions or collections of neuronal cell bodies (nuclei) Connective sex differences refer to the type or number of synapses or the size of a particular type of projection within the brain: the first sexual dimorphism found in brain was connective. Found in the medial preoptic area (mpoa) (just anterior to hypothalamus in rats).
