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Neuroendocrine mechanisms of the formation of adaptive behavior
V G Shalyapina1, N E Ordyan, S G Pivina
1Laboratory of Endocrine Physiology and Pathology, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.
Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
The behavioral and neuroendocrine responses of the body to external changes are determined by genetically determined programs of individual development, and are established during pre- and post-natal ontogenesis. These responses, however, can be changed by stress or administration of corticosteroid hormones in "critical periods" of the body's development. Mineralo- and glucocorticoid receptors mediate the "inhibition" of particular neuroendocrine or neuromediator systems, promoting behavioral modification.