Predicting children's attachment behaviors from the interaction between oxytocin and glucocorticoid receptors polymorphisms

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1322-1323

  Mesquita, Ana R ^a   Soares, Isabel ^a   Roisman, Glenn I ^a   IJzendoorn, Marinus van ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian ^a   Luijk, Maartje ^a   Tiemeier, Henning ^a   Belsky, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANXIETY; AUTISM; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LETTER; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; HUMANS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN;

EID: 84888294522     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.08.005     Document Type: Letter

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