Glucocorticoids and the brain: Neural mechanisms regulating the stress response

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 872, Issue , 2015, Pages 235-252

  Shirazi, Shawn N ^a   Friedman, Aaron R ^a   Kaufer, Daniela ^a   Sakhai, Samuel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Behavior; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Negative feedback; Prefrontal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84938378741     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2895-8_10     Document Type: Article

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