Endocrinology and Endocrine System

Behavioural Endocrinology

Behavioural Endocrinology is a branch of endocrinology which delas with the neuro endocrine system and its effects on behaviour. Behavioural Endocrinology is also referred as scientific interaction between hormones and behaviour.

Social behavior, reproductive behavior, moods, feelings, attitudes, development and survival are affected by the neuroendocrine system and studied in the field of behavioral endocrinology. Hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism are the two major dysfunctions associated to behavioral and brain chemistry changes due to the imbalances in the hormones.

Behavioral endocrinology has roots in ethology and it also a combination of endocrinology and psychology. Like ethology, behavioral endocrinology focuses on behavior on the level of the whole organism.

Areas of behavioural endocrinology

Affiliative & other social behaviors, Comparative behavioural endocrinology, Feeding & other motivated behaviors, Hormones & behaviour over lifespan, Human behavioural neuroendocrinology, Neuroendocrine circuits regulating behaviour, Pathophysiological behaviour & psychopharmacology, Pheromones, Sexually differentiated behaviors, Hormones, etc.

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