Social Neuroendocrinology Pre - Conference

Abstracts of the 13th Annual ENETS Conference for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease. March 9-11, 2016, Barcelona, Spain: Abstracts.

s A1–A10 5 Basic Science – Genetics, Epigenetics, miRNAs

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Nurturing nature: social experiences and the brain.

Summary How does 'nurture' change the brain? Recent evidence suggests that maternal care may shape the infant brain by turning genes 'on' or 'off' during development. Some of the genes affected are important for maternal and social behaviour leading to long-term changes in the nurturing behaviour of offspring. These studies provide new insights into the inheritance of behaviour and the interact...

Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents

Exposure to chronic stress is a reliable predictor of depressive disorders, and social stress is a common ethologically relevant stressor in both animals and humans. However, many animal models of depression were developed in males and are not applicable or effective in studies of postpartum females. Recent studies have reported significant effects of chronic social stress during lactation, an ...

Consensus guidelines for the management of patients with digestive neuroendocrine tumors: why such guidelines and how we went about It.

Sixty-two experts active in the field of digestive NETs from 20 different countries attended the first Consensus Conference. Attendees were invited on the basis of their proven expert scientific and clinical experience in NETs. The attendees represented all medical disciplines involved in managing patients with digestive NETs. They were assigned to four working groups according to their specifi...