Blunted neuroactive steroid and HPA axis responses to stress are associated with reduced sleep quality and negative affect in pregnancy: A pilot study

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 233, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1299-1310

  Crowley, Shannon K ^a   O'Buckley, Todd K ^a   Schiller, Crystal E ^a   Stuebe, Alison ^a,b   Morrow, A Leslie ^a   Girdler, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone (ALLO); Anxiety; Cortisol; Neurosteroids; Postpartum depression; Pregnancy; Sleep; Stress

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ELTANOLONE; HYDROCORTISONE; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE; TETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SLEEP QUALITY; BLOOD; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PILOT PROJECTS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957716047     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-016-4217-x     Document Type: Article

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