Cumulative Adversity sensitizes neural response to acute stress: Association with health symptoms

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 670-680

  Seo, Dongju ^a   Tsou, Kristen A ^a   Ansell, Emily B ^a   Potenza, Marc N ^a,b   Sinha, Rajita ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cumulative adversity; health problems; hippocampus; orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CUMULATIVE ADVERSITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LIFE EVENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892679151     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.250     Document Type: Article

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