The maternal brain under stress: Consequences for adaptive peripartum plasticity and its potential functional implications

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 114-128

  Slattery, David A ^a   Hillerer, Katharina M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Estrogen; Neurogenesis; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TRANSCORTIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL STRESS; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOTHER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; ANIMAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84956682282     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2016.01.004     Document Type: Article

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