Gene Therapy and Protection from Stress-Induced Brain Damage

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 627-632

  Sapolsky, R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Calcium; Depression; Estrogen; Fear; Gene therapy; Glucocorticoids; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Neuron death; Oxygen radicals; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349089386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00094-2     Document Type: Chapter

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