Sensitization of the hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis in posttraumatic stress disorder

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 821, Issue , 1997, Pages 57-75

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 116/A Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; METYRAPONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

CELL NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAPE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0030808260     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48269.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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