OADES, R. D. Search and attention: Interactions of the hippocampal-septal axis, adrenocortical and gonadal hormones. NEUROSCI. BIOBEHAV. REV. 3(1) 31--48, 1979.--The phenomenon of attention is treated in terms of the ability to select some sensory input channels over others by the central nervous system for further processing and behavioural organisation. Studies of birds and mammals are review...

Migraine is a primary headache disorder recognized by the World Health Organization as one of most poorly understood and debilitating neurological conditions impacting global disability. Chronic pain disorders are more frequently diagnosed among cisgender women than men, suggesting that female sex hormones could be responsible for mediating chronic pain, including migraine and/or androgens can ...

Maturation of the reproductive system during puberty results in elevated levels of gonadal steroid hormones. These hormones sculpt neural circuits during adolescence, a time of dramatic rewiring of the nervous system. Here, we review the evidence that steroid-dependent organization of the adolescent brain programs a variety of adult behaviors in animals and humans. Converging lines of evidence ...

During embryonic development, gonadal steroid hormones (androgens and estrogens) are thought to organize the sexual differentiation of the brain in the heterogametic sexes of higher vertebrates (males in mammals, females in birds). Brain differentiation of the homogametic sexes is thought to proceed by default, not requiring sex hormones for sex-specific organization. In gallinaceous birds such...

BACKGROUND Asparagus is a plant with high nutritional, pharmaceutical, and industrial values. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of aqueous extract of asparagus roots on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis hormones and oogenesis in female rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, 40 adult female Wistar rats were divided into five groups, which consist...