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      Plasma Prolactin Increase Following Electric Stimulation of the Amygdala in Humans

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          Plasma levels of PRL, GH, FSH, LH, and TSH were studied at various intervals after electric stimulation of the amygdala, in 5 patients in whom electrodes had been chronically implanted in the course of their evaluation for surgical treatment of uncontrollable, temporal lobe seizures. Electric stimulation, but not sham stimulation, elicited in all cases a significant rise in plasma PRL. Plasma GH rose only in 1 patient and TSH in another. No significant changes in plasma FSH or LH were detected. It is suggested that a fine control mechanism of the hypothalamic hypophyseal final common pathway for the control of PRL secretion, may be mediated either by the ventral amygdalohypothalamic pathway or via the stria terminalis.

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          Journal
          NEN
          Neuroendocrinology
          10.1159/issn.0028-3835
          Neuroendocrinology
          S. Karger AG
          0028-3835
          1423-0194
          1980
          1980
          26 March 2008
          : 31
          : 1
          : 60-65
          Affiliations
          Sección de Hormonas Protéicas and Sección de Neurofisiología, Unidad de Investigación Biomédica, CMN-IMSS, and Neurosurgical Unit, Hospital General, SSA, Mexico City, D.F.
          Article
          123051 Neuroendocrinology 1980;31:60–65
          10.1159/000123051
          6771666
          22071151-bf89-45e8-b8e7-d851dade0276
          © 1980 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 06 August 1979
          : 13 December 1979
          Page count
          Pages: 6
          Categories
          Original Paper

          Endocrinology & Diabetes,Neurology,Nutrition & Dietetics,Sexual medicine,Internal medicine,Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical medicine
          Electric stimulation,Amygdala,Prolactin,Humans

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