The organizing actions of adolescent gonadal steroid hormones on brain and behavioral development

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 148-158

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a   Sisk, Cheryl L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activational organizational hypothesis; Adolescence; Agonistic behavior; Anxiety like behavior; Cortex; Estrogen; Ingestive behavior; Sensitive periods; Sexual behavior; Synaptic pruning; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGGRESSION; ANTEROVENTRAL PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; POSTERODORSAL MEDIAL AMYGDALA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC NUCLEUS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84991809203     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.07.036     Document Type: Review

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