What can we know from pituitary-adrenal hormones about the nature and consequences of exposure to emotional stressors?

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 749-758

  Armario, Antonio ^a,b   Daviu, Núria ^a,b   Muñoz Abellán, Cristina ^a,b   Rabasa, Cristina ^a,b   Fuentes, Silvia ^a,b   Belda, Xavier ^a,b   Gagliano, Humberto ^a,b   Nadal, Roser ^a,b  

^a Red de Trastornos Adictivos (RTA)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Biological markers; Controllability; Fear conditioning; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Predictability; Stress; Stress intensity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEAR; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANXIETY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864653377     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-012-9814-6     Document Type: Review

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