Sensitizing effect of early adversity on depressive reactions to later proximal stress: Moderation by polymorphisms in serotonin transporter and corticotropin releasing hormone receptor genes in a 20-year longitudinal study

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2014, Pages 1241-1254

  Starr, Lisa R ^a   Hammen, Constance ^b   Conway, Christopher C ^b   Raposa, Elizabeth ^b   Brennan, Patricia A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913596752     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579414000996     Document Type: Article

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