Interaction of early life stress and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene: Effects on working memory

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 888-894

  Fuge, Philipp ^a,b   Aust, Sabine ^a,b   Fan, Yan ^a   Weigand, Anne ^a,b   Gärtner, Matti ^a   Feeser, Melanie ^a   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b   Grimm, Simone ^a,b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 1; early life stress; hippocampus; rs110402; rs242924; working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR GENE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; AGE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911363668     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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