Neurosteroids as therapeutic leads in psychiatry

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 659-660

  Zorumski, Charles F ^a   Mennerick, Steven ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3A,5A TETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLESTEROL; CLOZAPINE; DUTASTERIDE; ESTROGEN; FINASTERIDE; FLUOXETINE; GESTAGEN; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETAMINE; NEUROSTEROID; OLANZAPINE; OXYSTEROL; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE DERIVATIVE; TETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOLISM; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PROSTATE CANCER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84880550735     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.245     Document Type: Short Survey

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