Amygdala-hippocampal connectivity changes during acute psychosocial stress: Joint effect of early life stress and oxytocin

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2736-2744

  Fan, Yan ^a,b   Pestke, Karin ^a   Feeser, Melanie ^a,b   Aust, Sabine ^a,b   Pruessner, Jens C ^c,d   Böker, Heinz ^e   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b   Grimm, Simone ^a,b,e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; OXYGEN;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THALAMUS; ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; ETIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944354606     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.123     Document Type: Article

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