Does prenatal stress impair coping and regulation of hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal axis?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-10

  Weinstock, Marta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavioral suppression; Benzodiazepine receptors; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Depression; Endogenous opioids; Glucocorticoid receptors; Plasma corticosterone; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; OPIATE;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

EID: 0031039283     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(96)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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