Sex hormones affect neurotransmitters and shape the adult female brain during hormonal transition periods

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Barth, Claudia ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a,b,c   Sacher, Julia ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Hormonal transition periods; Neurotransmitters; Plasticity; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLIMACTERIUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PUERPERIUM; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVIEW;

EID: 84949115345     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00037     Document Type: Review

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