Neurobiological consequences of early stress and childhood maltreatment: Are results from human and animal studies comparable?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2006, Pages 313-323

  Teicher, Martin H ^a   Tomoda, Akemi ^a   Andersen, Susan E ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse or neglect; Adolescence; Corpus callosum; Hippocampus; Maltreatment; Sensitive periods; Stress; Translational research

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746412871     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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