Hormone Circuits 2021

Lecture Notes and exercises 

• Lecture 1 - Weight Set Point 1
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  • Notes

• Lecture 2 - Weight  Set Point 2
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Exercise 1 

• Lecture 3 - The insulin-glucose circuit
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• Lecture 4 - The BIG model
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• Lecture 5 - Transition from health to disease as a bifurcation
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Exercise 2 

• Lecture 6 - HPA axis as oscillator
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• Lecture 7 - Major depression and the slow timescale of treatment
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Exercise 3 

• Lecture 8 - The Ovulation Number
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• Lecture 9 - Thyroid and its discontents
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• Lecture 10 - Autoimmune disease as a fragility of surveillance against hyper-secreting mutants
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Exercise 4 

• Lecture 11 - Design principles of hormone circuits
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  • Notes:
    • Periodic table of diseases

• Lecture 12 - A theory of hormone changes in aging
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  • Notes :
    • Basic facts of aging
    • Aging and the saturation of damage removal
    • Aging-related diseases and their rising incidence with age

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