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Edited by A. Victor Nalbandov. Price, $7.50. Pp 525. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill 61801, 1963.

HOWARD P. KRIEGER, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1964;10(2):230.

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Advances in Neuroendocrinology consists of a series of papers presented at the Symposium of Neuroendocrinology of December, 1961. This symposium held in Miami, under the sponsorship of the National Institutes of Health, has some 40-odd contributors from the United States, England, France, The Netherlands, and Hungary. The papers presented describe the modes of interaction between the central nervous and endocrine systems and together constitute one of the best comprehensive summaries, reviews, and evaluations of the knowledge accumulated in the last 20 years in this field.

This set of reviews demonstrates how far we have advanced from the concept of the pituitary as an independently functioning "master gland" and describes in detail the roles of the hypothalamus in pituitary-endocrine function. These papers equally well show that the hypothalamus, despite its well-known control over the pituitary, is a synaptic way station (perhaps analogous to a final common pathway) or part of an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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