Women's Health : Hormones, Emotions, and Behavior /
edited by Regina C. Casper.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Psychiatry and medicine .
- Psychiatry and medicine. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Growing up female / Reproduction and its psychopathology / Women's sexual function and dysfunction / Gender differences in brain morphology and in psychiatric disorders / Thyroid hormones in major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder / Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system / Cost of starvation : eating disorders / Coronary artery disease and women : estrogens and psychosocial and lifestyle risk factors / Psychophysiology of breast cancer : disease, hormones, immunity, and stress / Psychopharmacology of women / Intervention trials concerned with disease prevention in women / Regina C. Casper -- Katherine E. Williams, Regina C. Casper -- Domeena C. Renshaw -- Laura Marsh, Regina C. Casper -- Naseem Ahmed Smith, Peter T. Loosen -- Dominique L. Musselman [and others] -- Regina C. Casper -- Joan M. Fair, Kathleen A. Berra, Regina C. Casper -- Sara L. Stein, Kaye Hermanson, David Spiegel -- Regina C. Casper -- Jennifer L. Kelsey, Robert Marcus.
This book offers an overview of the complex interplay between hormonal activation and individual and environmental influences in health and disease in women. The book provides useful information and background material important for treating problems related to the reproductive cycle, eating disorders, drug treatment of women, and clinical and treatment issues in coronary artery disease and breast cancer. This is a medically oriented book written firstly for the practising physician in primary care, psychiatry, internal medicine and gynaecology and obstetrics.
9780511570087 (ebook)
Women--Mental health. Women--Health and hygiene. Psychoneuroendocrinology.