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The Orexins/Hypocretins System: Functional Roles and Therapeutic Potential summarizes research on both the physiological functioning of orexins, their impact on homeostat… Read more
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The Orexins/Hypocretins System: Functional Roles and Therapeutic Potential summarizes research on both the physiological functioning of orexins, their impact on homeostatic processes, and related disorders. The book encompasses the effects on appetite, sleep, substance abuse, cognition, and anxiety. Additionally, it examines new therapeutic approaches utilizing orexins, including utilization of orexin receptors for drug development. It is essential reading for neuroscience researchers interested in brain-behavior relationships, as well as psychiatrists, endocrinologists and pharmacologists.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Hypocretins (orexins): 20 years of dissecting arousal circuits
2. Orexins and motivated behaviors
Part 2: Orexins and Sleep
3. Orexins and the stabilization of wake/sleep states
4. Orexins and narcolepsy in animal models
Part 3: Orexins and Feeding
5. Orexin’s role in motivated behavior for food
6. Orexin drives energy expenditure
Part 4. Orexins and Drug Abuse
7. Orexins/hypocretins and addiction
8. Hypocretin 1 receptor regulation of dopaminergic signaling and motivated behavior
9. Orexins and opioid addiction
Part 5: Orexins and Cognition
10. Orexins and cognition: neurochemical and anatomical substrates
11. The hypocretin/orexin system and fear learning
Part 6: Orexins and Psychological Disorders
12. Orexins and anxiety disorders
13. Orexins as targets for treating brain disorders
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