Central serotonin transporter levels are associated with stress hormone response and anxiety

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 213, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 563-572

  Reimold, Matthias ^a   Knobel, Astrid ^b   Rapp, Michael A ^b   Batra, Anil ^c   Wiedemann, Klaus ^d   Ströhle, Andreas ^b   Zimmer, Anke ^e   Schönknecht, Peter ^f   Smolka, Michael N ^g   Weinberger, Daniel R ^h   Goldman, David ⁱ   Machulla, Hans Jürgen ^a   Bares, Roland ^a   Heinz, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Dex CRH Test; Negative mood states; PET; Serotonin transporter; Stress hormones

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; N,N DIMETHYL 2 (2 AMINO 4 CYANOPHENYLTHIO)BENZYLAMINE C 11; RADIOLIGAND; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTYPE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; THALAMUS;

EID: 79952487191     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-1903-y     Document Type: Article

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