**Meet the editor**

Professor Neeraj Kumar Agrawal was Lecturer, Reader and is presently Associate Professor and Head of Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He obtained MBBS and MD (Medicine) degrees from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and DM (Endocrinology;

2000) from Department of Human Metabolism and Endocrinology, LLRM Medical College, Meerut, India. Professor Agrawal has been teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and DM (Post-doctoral) students. He has 12 international and 25 national publications. He has written 11 chapters in different books. He has been treasurer and the Member Executive Committee of Endocrine Society of India, member of The Endocrine Society, USA; Indian Thyroid Society.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Pradip K. Sarkar

**Section 1 Thyroid Hormone Physiology 1** 

Chapter 1 **"Quo Vadis?" Deciphering the Code** 

**in Mature Mammalian Brain 3** 

Chapter 3 **Paracrine Regulation of Thyroid-Hormone Synthesis by C Cells 51** 

and Inés Martín-Lacave

**Section 2 Developmental Physiology 123** 

**Section 3 Thyroid Hormone Excess 157** 

**Graves' Disease 159** 

R.G. Ahmed

Chapter 6 **Thyroid Hormone Excess:** 

Chapter 5 **Maternal-Fetal Thyroid Interactions 125** 

Rocío García-Marín, José Carmelo Utrilla

Chapter 4 **Thyroid Hormone Effects on Sensory Perception, Mental Speed, Neuronal Excitability and Ion Channel Regulation 85** 

Irmgard D. Dietzel, Sivaraj Mohanasundaram,

N.K. Agrawal, Ved Prakash and Manuj Sharma

Vanessa Niederkinkhaus, Gerd Hoffmann, Jens W. Meyer, Christoph Reiners, Christiana Blasl and Katharina Bohr

**of Nongenomic Action of Thyroid Hormones** 

José María Fernández-Santos, Jesús Morillo-Bernal,

Chapter 2 **Ecological Genetics of Thyroid Hormone Physiology in Humans and Wild Animals 37**  Asano Ishikawa and Jun Kitano
