Impacts of stress and sex hormones on dopamine neurotransmission in the adolescent brain

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1581-1599

  Sinclair, Duncan ^a,b,c,d   Purves Tyson, Tertia D ^a,b,c   Allen, Katherine M ^a,b,c   Weickert, Cynthia Shannon ^a,b,c  

^a Schizophrenia Research Institute   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Development; Dopamine; Estrogen; Glucocorticoids; Schizophrenia; Stress; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX HORMONE; STRESS HORMONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; DOPAMINE;

ADOLESCENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; COGNITION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROMODULATION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84898602240     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3415-z     Document Type: Review

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