Sexual differentiation of the brain and ADHD: What is a sex difference in prevalence telling us?

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 341-360

  Waddell, Jaylyn ^a   McCarthy, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Estradiol; Gonadal steroids; Sensitive periods; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER 2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER 1; TESTOSTERONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HORMONE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; COGNITION; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

APOPTOSIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84887972689     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2010_114     Document Type: Article

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