Recognizing resilience: Learning from the effects of stress on the brain

Neurobiology of Stress

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-11

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Gray, Jason D ^a   Nasca, Carla ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Early life stress; Epigenetics; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTONE H3; LIPOCALIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN REGULATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE HISTORY; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

EID: 84921897479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23522895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2014.09.001     Document Type: Review

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