Stress, sex, and neural adaptation to a changing environment: Mechanisms of neuronal remodeling

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1204, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages 38-59

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Amygdala; Dendritic plasticity; Depression; Estradiol; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Neurogenesis; Prefrontal cortex; Sex differences; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLUCOCORTICOID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENDRITE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STRESS; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957577240     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05568.x     Document Type: Article

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