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Hormone effects on brain and behavior surprisingly turned out to be (i) the first convincing demonstration of body-to-brain signaling and (ii) the best way of connecting excellent molecular biology and genomics to behavioral regulation.
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Litvin, Y., Pfaff, D.W. (2022). Hormone Effects on Behavior. In: Pfaff, D.W., Volkow, N.D., Rubenstein, J.L. (eds) Neuroscience in the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88832-9_59
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