Somatic and neuroendocrine responses to standard and biologically salient acoustic startle stimuli in monkeys

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-556

  Parker, Karen J ^a   Hyde, Shellie A ^a   Buckmaster, Christine L ^a   Tanaka, Serena M ^a   Brewster, Katharine K ^a   Schatzberg, Alan F ^a   Lyons, David M ^a   Woodward, Steven H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b National Center for PTSD   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; ACTH; Alarm call; Biological salience; Cortisol; HPA axis; Primate models; Squirrel monkey

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL MONKEY; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; METYRAPONE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SAIMIRI; STARTLE REACTION; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952043889     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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