Is it in our genes: Oxytocin, dopamine, stress, and sex

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-172

  Abi Dargham, Anissa ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYTOCIN; TRACER;

ANHEDONIA; BINDING SITE; CELL ACTIVITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHILD ABUSE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WOUND HEALING;

DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84863669730     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.05.007     Document Type: Note

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