Cocaine addiction in mothers: Potential effects on maternal care and infant development

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1187, Issue , 2010, Pages 172-183

  Strathearn, Lane ^a,b   Mayes, Linda C ^c  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cocaine; Dopamine; Maternal; Mother child bonding; Oxytocin; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OXIDOPAMINE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; REWARD; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 77949280705     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05142.x     Document Type: Review

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