Enduring neurobehavioral effects of early life trauma mediated through learning and corticosterone suppression

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages

  Moriceau, Stephanie ^a,b,c   Raineki, Charlis ^a,b,c   Holman, Jennifer D ^c   Holman, Jason G ^c   Sullivan, Regina M ^a,b,c,d  

^a Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attachment; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Infant; Learning; Odor; Sensitive period

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952886993     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.022.2009     Document Type: Article

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