The neurosteroids allopregnanolone and dehydroepiandrosterone modulate resting-state amygdala connectivity

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3249-3261

  Sripada, Rebecca K ^a,b   Welsh, Robert C ^a,c   Marx, Christine E ^d,e,f   Liberzon, Israel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Veterans Affairs Mid Atlantic Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dehydroepiandrosterone; FMRI; Neuroactive steroid; Pharmaco fMRI; Pregnenolone

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; ELTANOLONE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEGATIVE AFFECT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIAMYGDALA; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OXYGEN; PREGNANOLONE; REST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902146235     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22399     Document Type: Article

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