PSY 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Luteinizing Hormone, Pineal Gland, Antibody

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 358
• Professor: Patricia Whitaker

Document Summary

Classes of hormones: classified based on fat-solubility, steroids are very fat soluble. Often bind to receptors inside the target cell. Receptors are inside the cell hormones are more potent. In a neuron, signal is released from a specific point. Pituitary gland: anterior pituitary: releases hormones in response to releasing hormones, flatpeg: releasing factors, follicle, luteinizing, acth, thyroid, prolactin, endorphin, growth hormone, between hypothalamus and pituitary is called the pituitary stalk. In this part, there is a median eminence: organ where peptide hormones feedback, posterior pituitary: no releasing factors, oxytocin and vasopressin, pineal: releases melatonin. Important hormones: melatonin, oxytocin, cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, gh, Still found in the body without gonads: dhea and allo, neuro-steroids. Made by the brain: dhea: in men, allo: in women. Steroid hormone receptors: hormone can go through the blood-brain barrier, bind to dna receptors and become a part of one"s dna, cortisol development can turn on the development of different genes.