The storm and stress of adolescence: Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-235

  Casey, B J ^a   Jones, Rebecca M ^a   Levita, Liat ^a   Libby, Victoria ^a   Pattwell, Siobhan S ^a   Ruberry, Erika J ^a   Soliman, Fatima ^a   Somerville, Leah H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brain; Development; Environment; Genetics; Imaging; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; MOUSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EMOTIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 77950154827     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20447     Document Type: Article

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