Maternal PTSD associates with greater glucocorticoid sensitivity in offspring of Holocaust survivors

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 213-220

  Lehrner, Amy ^a   Bierer, Linda M ^a,b   Passarelli, Vincent ^a   Pratchett, Laura C ^a,b   Flory, Janine D ^a,b   Bader, Heather N ^b   Harris, Iris R ^a   Bedi, Aarti ^b   Daskalakis, Nikolaos P ^a,b   Makotkine, Iouri ^a,b   Yehuda, Rachel ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Dexamethasone suppression test; Glucocorticoid receptor; Holocaust; Intergenerational; PTSD; Risk factor; Trauma

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; LYSOZYME SUPPRESSION TEST; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR;

CORTISOL; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HOLOCAUST; INTERGENERATIONAL; PTSD; RISK FACTOR; TRAUMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FATHERS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893387688     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.11.019     Document Type: Article

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