Chronic social stress: Effects on limbic brain structures

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-427

  Fuchs, Eberhard ^a   Flügge, Gabriele ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cingulate cortex; Dopamine; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Neurogenesis; Noradrenaline; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSECTIVORE; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM CONDUCTANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDENTIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0042383465     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(03)00161-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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