Sex differences in drug-related stress-system changes: Implications for treatment in substance-abusing women

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-119

  Fox, Helen C ^a   Sinha, Rajita ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Stress; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ALCOHOL; COCAINE; CORTICOTROPIN; NICOTINE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG USE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IRRITABILITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NICOTINE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549085249     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220902899680     Document Type: Review

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