Neural traces of stress: Cortisol related sustained enhancement of amygdala-hippocampal functional connectivity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Vaisvaser, Sharon ^a,b   Lin, Tamar ^a,b   Admon, Roee ^c   Podlipsky, Ilana ^a   Greenman, Yona ^a,b   Stern, Naftali ^a,b   Fruchter, Eyal ^d   Wald, Ilan ^b   Pine, Daniel S ^e   Tarrasch, Ricardo ^b   Bar Haim, Yair ^b   Hendler, Talma ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Division of Health Technology   (Israel)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Fmri; Limbic connectivity; Recovery; Resting state functional connectivity

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS;

EID: 84933671179     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00313     Document Type: Article

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