The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and most important, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid advances in the years since the second edition.

NEUROEDNOCRINOLOGY OF MALE REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR - M. J. Baum.- NEUROCHEMISTRY OF MALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR - E. M. Hull, J. M. Dominguez, and J. W. Muschamp.- FEMININE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR FROM NEUROENDOCRINE AMD MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES - J. D. Blaustein and S. K. Mani.- THE NEUROCHEMISTRY OF LIMBIC-HYPOTHALAMIC CIRCUITS REGULATING SEXUAL RECEPTIVITY - P. Micevych, K. Sinchak.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY AND NEUROCHEMISTRY OF MATERNAL MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR - J. S. Lonstein and J.I. Morrell.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, NEUROCHEMISTRY, AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR - E. A. D. Hammock and L. J. Young.- NEUROCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR - K. A. Miczek, S. P. Faccidomo, E. W. Fish and J. F. DeBold.- NOVEL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NEUROENDOCRINE REGULATION OF AGGRESSION: A SYNTHESIS OF RODENT, AVIAN AND PRIMATE STUDIES - G. E. Demas, M. A. Cooper, H. E. Albers, and K. K. Soma.- MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF BIRD SONG - D. F. Clayton.- THE NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY AND NEUROCHEMISTRY OF BIRDSONG - G. F. Ball and J. Balthazart.- SEX DIFFERENCES IN NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND BEHAVIOR: DEVELOPMENT - M. M. McCarthy.- SEX DIFFERENCES IN NEUROTRANSMITTERS SYSTEMS; VASOPRESSIN AS AN EXAMPLE - G. J. de Vries.- NEUROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS REGULATING THE HYPOTHALAMO-PITUITARY-ADRENOCORTICAL AXIS - J. P. Herman, H. F. Figueiredo, N. K. Mueller, M. M. Ostrander, R. Zhang, M. Tauchi, D. C. Choi, A. R. Furay, N. K. Evanson, E. B. Nelson, and Y. M. Ulrich-Lai.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF STRESS - B. S. McEwen, S. Chattarji.- MATERNAL PROGRAMMING OF GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR EXPRESSION AND HPA RESPONSES TO STRESS THROUGH DNA METHYLATION IN THE RAT - M. J. Meaney, I. C. G. Weaver, T. Wu, I. Hellstrom, J. Diorio, and M. Szyf.- ENERGY BALANCE AND FEEDING - S. C. Benoit, D. J. Clegg, S. C. Woods.- THE NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, NEUROCHEMISTRY, AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THIRST AND SALT APPETITE - A. K. Johnson and R. L. Thunhorst.-NEUROCHEMISTRY/NEUROPHARMACOLOGY OF FEAR AND FEAR CONDITIONING - G. E. Schafe and J. E. LeDoux.- NEUROCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF MEMORY - P. Dash and A. N. Moore.- NEUROCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF REWARD - J. B. Becker and R. L. Meisel.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF MEMORY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION - V. N. Luine.- THE MAMMALIAN CIRCADIAN SYSTEM: FROM GENES TO BEHAVIOR - B. H. Miller, E. L. McDearmon, and J. S. Takahashi.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF BEHAVIORAL RHYTHMS - T. M. Lee and L. Smale.- NEUROCHEMISTRY OF SLEEP - T. Porkka-Heiskanen, L. Alanko, and D. Stenberg.- NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF SLEEP - A. Steiger