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Editors: Akira Matsumoto and Susumu Ishii. Atlas of Endocrine Organs: Vertebrates and Invertebrates. Springer-Verlarg Telos, 1992. ISBN: 0387531580
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| Editor: Akira Matsumoto. Sexual Differentiation of the Brain. CRC Press, 2000. ISBN: 0849311659 |
 Editor: Gillian Einstein. Sex and the Brain. The MIT Press; 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-05087-6
This collection of foundational papers on sex differences in the brain traces the development of a much-invoked, fast-growing young field at the intersection of brain and behavior. The reader is introduced to the meaning and nature of sexual dimorphisms, the mechanisms and consequences of steroid hormone action, and the impact of the field on interpretations of sexuality and gender.
Building on each other in point-counterpoint fashion, the papers tell a fascinating story of an emerging science working out its core assumptions. Experimental and theoretical papers, woven together by editor's introductions, open a window onto knowledge in the making and a vigorous debate between reductionist and pluralist interpreters.
Five major sections include papers on conceptual and methodological background, central nervous system dimorphisms, mechanisms for creating dimorphisms, dimorphisms and cognition, and dimorphisms and identity. Each section builds from basic concepts to early experiments, from experimental models to humans, and from molecules to mind. Papers by such leading scholars as Arthur Arnold, Frank Beach, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Doreen Kimura, Simon LeVay, Bruce McEwen, Michael Merzenich, Bertram O'Malley, Geoffrey Raisman, and Dick Swaab, illustrate a rich blend of perspectives, approaches, methods, and findings.
Sex and the Brain will show students how a scientific paper can be analyzed from many perspectives, and supply them with critical tools for judging a rapidly emerging science in a contentious area. |
 Bridges, RS. (ed). 2008. Neurobiology of the Parental Brain. Academic Press. Burlington, MA. ISBN 978-0-12-374285-8 |
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 Jacques Balthazart, a past-president of the SBN has recently published a book in French
entitled “Biologie de l’Homosexualité” (2010 Éditions Mardaga, Wavre, Belgium). In this book he marshalls evidence from animal and human studies indicating that the origins of homosexuality, like any other sexual orientation, involve an interplay of environmental and biological factors, especially neuroendocrine processes. An English language version of his book will be published in the USA late in 2010.
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