Serotonin brain circuits involved in major depression and suicide

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2002, Pages 443-453

  Arango, Victoria ^a,b   Underwood, Mark D ^a,b   Mann, J John ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AUTOPSY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SUICIDE;

EID: 0036456335     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)36037-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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