Assessing gonadal hormone contributions to affective psychopathologies across humans and animal models

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-128

  Mueller, S C ^a   Grissom, E M ^b   Dohanich, G P ^b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Mood disorder; Oestradiol; Sex steroids; Testosterone; Translational

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DISEASE MODEL; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FAMILIAL MALE PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSAL DEPRESSION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURNER SYNDROME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS;

EID: 84901477204     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.015     Document Type: Review

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