Individual differences in stress susceptibility and stress inhibitory mechanisms

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue , 2017, Pages 54-64

  Ebner, Karl ^a   Singewald, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHAPERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FK506 BINDING PROTEIN 51; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 85006839773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.11.016     Document Type: Review

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