Stress predicts brain changes in children: A pilot longitudinal study on youth stress, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the hippocampus

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 509-516

  Carrion, Victor G ^a,c   Weems, Carl F ^b   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Cortisol; Hippocampus; MRI; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PILOT PROJECTS; SALIVA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33947132080     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2028     Document Type: Article

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