“…There is an increase in adrenal glucocorticoid secretion, as well as a decline in adrenal androgen synthesis and secretion in humans during the aging process (Yen and Laughlin, 1998). Several investigators have suggested that the hypothalamus may mediate the agerelated decline of physiological functions and changes of biological rhythms (Meites et al, 1987;Carlson and Sawada, 1996;Hofman, 1997); the hippocampus has also been implicated in this phenomenon (Jacobson and Sapolsky, 1991).…”