Testosterone

Herbert's book is refreshingly sensitive to the gamut of testosterone's effects'Newsweek Europe, Peter LeggattIt is the best of hormones, it is the worst of hormones. Joe Herbert leads a guided tour through human evolution using the multifaceted hormone as his lens and vehicle.‘New Scientist, Bob GrantTestosterone is a very good read on an interesting subject'BBC Focus, Dr Dean BurnettHerbert’s study makes clear that testosterone a small but powerful molecule has helped shape our history’Dr Ian Miller, Times Literary SupplementTestosterone ... provokes its readers into considering the role of our biological inheritance in influencing how we cope with modern society'Dr Ian Miller, Times Literary SupplementHerbert challenges us to pay closer attention to the role of our biological inheritance in shaping virtually all aspects of our existence’Dr Ian Miller, Times Literary Supplement`an engaging whistlestop tour of the science surrounding [testosterone]‘Daily Mail, Nick Rennison

Joe Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Cambridge University and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His areas of expertise include the role of hormones in the ability of the adult brain to make new nerve cells (neurons) and repair the brain; how hormones regulate behavior; the neuroscience of stress; how hormones, genes and the social and psychological environment interact to promote the risk for depression; and studies on the way that hormones and genes influence financial decision-making. He has authored (and co-authored) around 250 scientific papers on these topics, and is the author of The Minder Brain: How your brain keeps you alive, protects you from danger, and ensures that you reproduce (World Scientific Press, 2007).