Early life stress and macaque amygdala hypertrophy: Preliminary evidence for a role for the serotonin transporter gene

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Coplan, Jeremy D ^a   Fathy, Hassan M ^a   Jackowski, Andrea P ^b   Tang, Cheuk Y ^c   Perera, Tarique D ^d   Mathew, Sanjay J ^e,f   Martinez, Jose ^c   Abdallah, Chadi G ^g,h   Dwork, Andrew J ^d,i   Pantol, Gustavo ^c   Carpenter, David ^c   Gorman, Jack M ^j   Nemeroff, Charles B ^k   Owens, Michael J ^l   Kaufman, Joan ^g,h  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h National Center for PTSD   (United States)

ⁱ College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^j Comprehensive NeuroScience Corporation ^*  (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amygdala; Early life stress; MRI; Non human primates; Serotonin transporter gene; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; AMYGDALA HYPERTROPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENE FUNCTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACACA; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907780187     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00342     Document Type: Article

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