Women's Health
Hormones, Emotions and Behavior

Describes the interplay between environment, genes and mental health in women.

Regina C. Casper (Edited by)

9780521060202, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 February 2008

348 pages, 1 b/w illus. 33 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.551 kg

"This carefully researched and well written book provides an up-to-date review of the complex interplay between hormones and environment, and the effects of hormones on women's emotions and behavior." Psychosomatic Medicine

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.

1. Growing up female Regina C. Casper
2. Reproduction and its psychopathology Katherine E. Williams and Regina C. Casper
3. Womn's sexual function and dysfunction Domeena C. Renshaw
4. Gender differences in brain morphology and in psychiatric disorders Regina C. Casper and Laura Marsh
5. Thyroid hormones in major depressive and bipolar disorder Naseem Ahmed Smith and Peter T. Loosen
6. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-cortical system Dominique L. Musselman, Gail Anderson, Maryfrances R. Porter and Charles B. Nemeroff
7. The cost of starvation: eating disorders Regina C. Casper
8. Coronary artery disease and women: estrogens and psychosocial and lifestyle risk factors Regina C. Casper, Kathleen A. Berra and Joan M. Fair
9. The psychophysiology of breast cancer: Disease, hormones, immunity and stress Sara L. Stein, Kaye Hermanson and David Spiegel
10. The psychopharmacology of women Regina C. Casper
11. Intervention trials concerned with disease prevention in women Jennifer L. Kelsey and Robert Marcus.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]