Modulatory mechanisms of cortisol effects on emotional learning and memory: Novel perspectives

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1874-1882

  van Ast, Vanessa A ^a   Cornelisse, Sandra ^b   Marin, Marie France ^c,d   Ackermann, Sandra ^e   Garfinkel, Sarah N ^f   Abercrombie, Heather C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Cortisol; Encoding; Memory; Modulators; PTSD; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; MATERNAL CARE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSOLIDATION; CORTISOL; ENCODING; MEMORY; MODULATORS; PTSD; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883657650     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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