Maturation and Aging of Neuroendocrine Functions - The Role of Monoaminergic Neurons and of the Pineal Gland (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Drug abuse, environmental pollution, induced health risks and the increase of the proportion of aged people are three grave problems of medicine and of the society all over the world in our epoch. The neuroendocrine system, with special emphasis to the pineal gland, plays an integrative role in the development and disintegration of the physical and mental changes which occur towards the two end-points of life, at the beginning and termination of the life cycle. This volume, documented by 17 tables, 23 line and column diagrams, and two tables of microphotographs, closes with a detailed bibliography, containing about 200 data of the literature.