Glucocorticoid hyper- and hypofunction: Stress effects on cognition and aggression

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1113, Issue , 2007, Pages 291-303

  Kim, Jeansok J ^a   Haller, József ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggression; Amygdala; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; SUBSTANCE P;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS; WELLBEING;

RATTUS;

EID: 35548954230     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1391.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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