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Brain and Behavior Class Notes Hormones and the Brain Neural

communication is mediated by exchange, receipt and transduction of

chemical signals Neurons communicate through synaptic transmission: A

given neurotransmitter may interact with many dierent receptors in

dierent parts of the brain Neuralhormone interactions: action at a distance

Neurons communicate through synaptic transmission: Anatomicalconnections !ndocrine signals are transmitted through the bloodstream: "he

message is received by receptors throughout the body Neuroendocrine Cells

Blend Neuronal and !ndocrine #echanisms: electrical to hormonal Chemical

$tructures of the "hree #ain Hormone "ypes $hort Amino Acid: e%g% AC"H,

&xytocin, 'asopressin, (rowth hormone )(H* #odi+ed $ingle Amino Acids:

e%g% "hyroxine, #elatonin, Adrenaline erived from cholesterol and consist of

four carbon atoms% issolves easily in lipids: e%g% !stradiol, testosterone

"estes release the hormone testosterone a chemical that has widespread

Brain and Behavior Class Notes Hormones and the Brain Neural

communication is mediated by exchange, receipt and transduction of

chemical signals Neurons communicate through synaptic transmission: A

given neurotransmitter may interact with many dierent receptors in

dierent parts of the brain Neuralhormone interactions: action at a distance

Neurons communicate through synaptic transmission: Anatomical

connections !ndocrine signals are transmitted through the bloodstream: "he

message is received by receptors throughout the body Neuroendocrine Cells

Blend Neuronal and !ndocrine #echanisms: electrical to hormonal Chemical

$tructures of the "hree #ain Hormone "ypes $hort Amino Acid: e%g% AC"H,

&xytocin, 'asopressin, (rowth hormone )(H* #odi+ed $ingle Amino Acids:

e%g% "hyroxine, #elatonin, Adrenaline erived from cholesterol and consist offour carbon atoms% issolves easily in lipids: e%g% !stradiol, testosterone

"estes release the hormone testosterone a chemical that has widespread

Bac-ground image of page .Brain and Behavior Class Notes Hormones and

the Brain Neural communication is mediated by exchange, receipt and

transduction of chemical signals Neurons communicate through synaptic

transmission: A given neurotransmitter may interact with many dierent

receptors in dierent parts of the brain Neuralhormone interactions: action

at a distance Neurons communicate through synaptic transmission:

Anatomical connections !ndocrine signals are transmitted through the

bloodstream: "he message is received by receptors throughout the bodyNeuroendocrine Cells Blend Neuronal and !ndocrine #echanisms: electrical

to hormonal Chemical $tructures of the "hree #ain Hormone "ypes $hort

Amino Acid: e%g% AC"H, &xytocin, 'asopressin, (rowth hormone )(H* #odi+ed

$ingle Amino Acids: e%g% "hyroxine, #elatonin, Adrenaline erived from

cholesterol and consist of four carbon atoms% issolves easily in lipids: e%g%

!stradiol, testosterone "estes release the hormone testosterone a chemical

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that has widespread