Sex steroids and connectivity in the human brain: A review of neuroimaging studies

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1101-1113

  Peper, Jiska S ^a   van den Heuvel, Martijn P ^b   Mandl, René C W ^b   Pol, Hilleke E Hulshoff ^b   van Honk, Jack ^c,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Development; Estradiol; Functional connectivity; Testosterone; White matter

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENCE; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GONADAL DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; ORBITAL CORTEX; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS; VERBAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 80051475230     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.05.004     Document Type: Review

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