Perspective: Sex matters: Gonadal steroids and the brain

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 537-538

  Young, Elizabeth A ^a   Becker, Jill B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONKEY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58149474177     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.221     Document Type: Short Survey

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