Published: Elsevier 2021
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“…Alteration of Peptide Hormones Regulating Food Intake, Appetite, and Satiety -- Alteration of Hypothalamic Opioid Peptides: POMC, Endorphins, and Enkephalins -- Alterations in the Expression of Susceptibility Genes for Schizophrenia -- Role of the Hypothalamus in Sleep Disturbances in Schizophrenia -- Disease-
Related Neuroinflammatory and Neuroimmune Disturbances and the Impact of the Hypothalamus -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: The promiscuity of the oxytocin-vasopressin systems and their involvement in autism spectrum disorder -- Introduction: Oxytocin and Vasopressin Synthesis, Gene Structure, and Function -- Evolutionary History of Oxytocin and Vasopressin Ligands and Receptors -- Oxytocin and Vasopressin Ligand and Receptor Distribution in the
Human and Mouse Brain -- Oxytocin and Vasopressin Regulate
Social Behaviors -- Gene blockade and activation studies (knockout, pharmacological, chemogenetic, optogenetic) -- Oxytocin/vasopressin concentration and administration studies -- Epigenetic studies -- Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) studies -- Oxytocinergic and Vasopressinergic Systems Are Impaired in ASD and
Related Animal Models -- Nonhuman animal models --
Human patients -- Treatments for ASD Targeting the Oxytocinergic and Vasopressinergic Systems -- Treatments targeting the oxytocin system in adults -- In nonhuman animal models -- In
human patients -- Treatments targeting the oxytocin system during development -- In nonhuman animal models -- In
human patients -- Treatments targeting the vasopressin system -- In nonhuman animal models -- In
human subjects -- Oxytocin and behavioral therapies -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 23: Epilepsy -- Chapter 10: Gelastic seizures and the hypothalamic hamartoma syndrome: Epileptogenesis beyond the lesion? …”
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