NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY - ITS ROLE IN THE SYST EM OF NEUROSCIENCES

Neuroendocrinology is regarded as an area of knowledge which has emerg ed at the interface of two disciplines: neurobiology and endocrinology in the course of accumulation of new endence within each. The evidenc e is strong to evidence that the neurons involve endocrine properties, including the ability to secrete hormones. Strong evidence is given t hat only the neuroendocrinological approach can explain many mysterous phenomena known in the physiology of the central and autonomic nervou s system, which could not have been interpreted by neurobiologists for many years. Neuroendocrinology has provided insight into brain functi ons and lifted the veil over its mysteries. The latters include the se xual brain differentiation phenomenon which is analysed at the end of the present communication.