Chronic psychosocial stress and concomitant repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: Effects on stress hormone levels and adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1057-1065

  Czéh, Boldizsár ^a   Welt, Tobias ^b   Fischer, Anja K ^a   Erhardt, Angelika ^b   Schmitt, Wolfram ^b   Müller, Marianne B ^b   Toschi, Nicola ^b   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a   Keck, Martin E ^b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Hippocampus; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical (HPA) system; Neurogenesis; Psychosocial stress; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STEM CELL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0036891428     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01457-9     Document Type: Article

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