Stress, sex hormones, inflammation, and major depressive disorder: Extending Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression to account for sex differences in mood disorders

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 236, Issue 10, 2019, Pages 3063-3079

  Slavich, George M ^a   Sacher, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Depression; Disease; Inflammation; Life stress; Neuroinflammation; Risk; Sex differences; Sex hormones; Social threat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESTETROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOOD; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIORAL WITHDRAWAL; SOCIAL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION THEORY OF DEPRESSION; STRESS; TH2 CELL; WOUND HEALING; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85069938222     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-019-05326-9     Document Type: Review

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