Stress response in postpartum women with and without obsessive-compulsive symptoms: An fmri study

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 78-86

  Lord, Catherine ^a   Steiner, Meir ^a   Soares, Claudio N ^a   Carew, Caitlin L ^a   Hall, Geoffrey B ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUVOXAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; LORAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; QUETIAPINE; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARITY; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUERPERIUM; SELF REPORT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 84857549295     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: 14882434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.110005     Document Type: Article

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