Deactivation of the Limbic System During Acute Psychosocial Stress: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-240

  Pruessner, Jens C ^a   Dedovic, Katarina ^b   Khalili Mahani, Najmeh ^b   Engert, Veronika ^a   Pruessner, Marita ^a   Buss, Claudia ^a   Renwick, Robert ^b   Dagher, Alain ^b   Meaney, Michael J ^a   Lupien, Sonia ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortisol; default brain function; functional magnetic resonance imaging; hippocampus; positron emission tomography; stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 37449011212     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.04.041     Document Type: Article

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