PSYC 2240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paramesonephric Duct, Posterior Pituitary, Anterior Pituitary

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Alistair Mapp

Document Summary

There they stimulate or inhibit the release of acth, tsh, Prolactin, somatoropin (also known as growth hormone), gonadotropin: negative feedback system. The hypothalamus produces vasopressin and oxytocin, which travel to the posterior pituitary (really an extension of the hypothalamus. The posterior pituitary releases those hormones in response to neural signals. The hypothalamus also produces releasing hormones and inhibiting hormones, which travel to the anterior pituitary, where they control the release of six hormones synthesized there. Sex and hormones: steroid hormones, contain four carbon rings, derived from cholesterol, bind to membrane receptors, like neurotransmitters, exerting rapid effects, enter cells and activate certain kinds of proteins in the cytoplasm. Estradiol: both sexes have both types, sex hormones affect the brain, the genitals, and other organs, male and female bodies differ due to sex limited genes, which are activated by androgens and estrogens.