Mood disorders and allostatic load

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 200-207

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Amygdala; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL LOSS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OBESITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATROPHY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MOOD DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141832631     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00177-X     Document Type: Review

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