PSY BEH 112D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kisspeptin, Puberty, Leptin

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 112D
• Professor: Elizabeth Cauffman

Document Summary

Process begins at conception- determines if you are male or female. Organizational - the babies brain is female till exposed to male hormones, defines your body. Hypothalamus - art of the brain that tells you your drivem regulatory process center. Gonands tell the hypothalamus to start , okay let me tell the pituitary gland then they say okay ill give it to you. Hypothalamus releases gnrh to pituitary gland and they will release lh, fsh. They release a lot of it and that makes. If you don"t have it you wont go through puberty. Accompanied by leptin\fat hypothesis- if you don"t have this you wont have puberty. Increase the rate of lh secretion- goes hand in hand with body fat. Melotonen too is part of this- more you have the slower. Melotonen too is part of this- more you have the slower pubirty will be ad you wil get it later than others.