Long-term behavioral and neuroendocrine adaptations to adverse early experience

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue , 2000, Pages 81-103

  Ladd, Charlotte O ^a   Huot, Rebecca L ^a   Thrivikraman, K V ^a   Nemeroff, Charles B ^b   Meaney, Michael J ^c   Plotsky, Paul M ^a  

^a University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ARGIPRESSIN; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADAPTATION; ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXPERIENCE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 0034000440     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)62132-9     Document Type: Review

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