ÚLOHA TESTOSTERÓNU V MODULOVANÍ KOGNITÍVNYCH FUNKCIÍ A ETIOLÓGII NADPRIEMERNÉHO INTELEKTOVÉHO NADANIA/Role of testosterone in cognitive functions modulation and etiology of above-average intellect endowment

The intensive research in the last years brought a lot of interesting evidence concerning the variety of effects of testosterone. The view on testosterone was thus substantially broadened. Except of generally known effects on morphology and sexual characteristics, its influence on cognitive characteristics, behavior, and intellect in both the prenatal and postnatal period gets to the foreground. The role of steroid hormones was unambiguously proved in many processes essential for the brain architecture and its functioning. Durdiakova and Ostatnikova bring the overview of selected findings about testosterone organizing the brain in the prenatal period and activating its functioning in the postnatal period.