Associations among parenting experiences during childhood and adolescence, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis hypoactivity, and hippocampal gray matter volume reduction in young adults

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2211-2223

  Narita, Kosuke ^a   Fujihara, Kazuyuki ^a   Takei, Yuichi ^a   Suda, Masashi ^a   Aoyama, Yoshiyuki ^a   Uehara, Toru ^a   Majima, Takehiko ^a   Kosaka, Hirotaka ^b   Amanuma, Makoto ^a   Fukuda, Masato ^a   Mikuni, Masahiko ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Dexamethasone; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Parenting

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864957750     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21354     Document Type: Article

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