Assessing the neuroendocrine stress response in the functional neuroimaging context

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1116-1124

  King, Anthony P ^a,b   Liberzon, Israel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCORTISONE;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STRESS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM;

EID: 67651023711     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.055     Document Type: Article

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