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Neuroendocrinology in Physiology and Medicine

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Conn and Freeman's excellent book "Neuroendocrinology in Physiology and Medicine" covers th full range of topics in the field from molecular biology to electrophysiological control mechanisms. The level of anatomical detail in chapters is always appropriate for the specific topic covered. Explication of hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic mechanisms are detailed without undue speculation. The reader will find a balance between pre-clinical and clinical considerations. It would serve very well as a text in a seminar course as well as a beginning post-graduate lecture course in neuroendocrinology. The coverage of chronobiology is excellent but discussion of pineal and habenular mechanisms needs development. Medical students would profit from its relevance to alternative and complementary medicine in conjunction with a detailed work on the Limbic System. Physiological psychologists, neurochemists and all other neuroscientists would profit greatly from owning this book.

I am an endocrinologist and bought this book because I wanted to make a deeper review on neuroendocrinology.
Some of the good points of the book is that it's written by experts on the field, and from all around on the world, wich provides you with a comprhensive view.
Another good point is that there are not many books that study this area, so this one comes to fill a gap.
The book edition iis just september 2010, so the information is updated as posibly it can be.
some of the "low" points are that you need to know about the theme, or it can be a little hard to understand, but if you decide to take the time to reed it and consult the complementary information is very good book.
finally, graphics are few and monochromatic, they can imporve it by adding some more and adding colour.
In general, I am glad to have bought the book, and I recomended if you want to go deeper inthis field, altought I recognize that probably for some people at the begining it can be a little hard to follow, since it requires a relativelly good knouledge of the neuroanatomy, but besides that, it's a very complete and interesting reeding.