Testosterone during puberty shifts emotional control from pulvinar to anterior prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6156-6164

  Tyborowska, Anna ^a,b   Volman, Inge ^a,b,c   Smeekens, Sanny ^a,d   Toni, Ivan ^b   Roelofs, Karin ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Approach avoidance task; FMRI; Frontal pole; Hormones; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PULVINAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; SEXUAL MATURATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84973333159     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3874-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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