17β-Estradiol differentially regulates stress circuitry activity in healthy and depressed women

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 566-576

  Jacobs, Emily G ^a   Holsen, Laura M ^a   Lancaster, Katie ^b   Makris, Nikos ^a,c   Whitfield Gabrieli, Sue ^c   Remington, Anne ^a   Weiss, Blair ^a   Buka, Stephen ^d   Klibanski, Anne ^e   Goldstein, Jill M ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SUBCORTEX; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VISUAL STRESS; AFFECT; ANXIETY; BLOOD; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84922071040     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.203     Document Type: Article

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