Stress Response: Sex Differences

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 511-517

  Handa, R J ^a   McGivern, R F ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Androgen; Anxiety; Corticosterone; Cortisol; Depression; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; Glucocorticoid receptor; HPA axis; Learned helplessness; Negative feedback; Organizational; Paraventricular nucleus; Sex dimorphism; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882841774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00100-5     Document Type: Chapter

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