Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: From Sigmund Freud's "Trauma" to psychopathology and the (Dys)metabolic syndrome

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 413-419

  Pervanidou, P ^a   Chrousos, G P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain; Catecholamines; Child development; Salivary cortisol

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CATECHOLAMINE EXCRETION; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA LEVEL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; METABOLIC DISEASES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 34347218935     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-981461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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