Black sheep get the blues: A psychobiological model of social rejection and depression

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-45

  Slavich, George M ^a   O'Donovan, Aoife ^a   Epel, Elissa S ^a   Kemeny, Margaret E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Cortisol; Depression; Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; Glucocorticoid resistance; Immune cell aging; Inflammation; Life stress; Social rejection; Stress sensitization

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALPHA INTERFERON; CATECHOLAMINE; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955926101     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.01.003     Document Type: Review

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