Stress- and allostasis-induced brain plasticity

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 431-445

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Gianaros, Peter J ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; brain plasticity; brain body medicine; hippocampus; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ALLOSTASIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; B SCAN; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTEGRATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALLOSTASIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78049295768     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-052209-100430     Document Type: Article

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