Perinatal programming of emotional brain circuits: An integrative view from systems to molecules

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Bock, Jörg ^a,b   Rether, Kathy ^a   Gröger, Nicole ^a   Xie, Lan ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early life stress; Epigenetics; Psychopathology; Resilience; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CPG ISLAND; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; EPIGENETICS; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84898033739     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00011     Document Type: Review

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