Stress Effects on Neuronal Structure: Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Prefrontal Cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-23

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Nasca, Carla ^a   Gray, Jason D ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AGING; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CHRONIC STRESS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGENETICS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84949587661     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.171     Document Type: Review

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