Michael Wilkinson has over forty years of experience teaching neuroscience and neuroendocrinology to undergraduate physiology and medical students, and to graduate students in neuroscience and physiology. He has trained many Ph.D. and M.D. students, and has more than 170 publications, including numerous invited reviews. He has received several awards, including a Senior Killam Fellowship, and the Schering Prize, and is co-author of An Introduction to Neuroendocrinology (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2015) with R. Brown.
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Dedication Preface Acknowledgements 1. Basic principles in clinical neuroendocrinology I: receptor mechanisms 2. Basic principles in clinical neuroendocrinology II: assays, rhythms and pulses 3. Neuroendocrinology of female reproduction 4. Neuroendocrine regulation of appetite and body weight 5. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal cortex axis 6. Hypothalamic regulation of thyroid function 7. Hypothalamic regulation of prolactin secretion 8. Regulation of growth hormone secretion 9. Posterior pituitary 10. An introduction to sellar masses Appendix Index.
