Adrenarche and the evolution of human life history

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 569-589

  Campbell, Benjamin ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROSTEROID; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENARCHE; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; APE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY GROWTH; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEAR; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MEMORY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MOOD; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; ORANG UTAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ADRENARCHE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MEMORY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 33748743545     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20528     Document Type: Article

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