Revisiting the stress concept: Implications for affective disorders

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 12-21

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Akil, Huda ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE; NERVE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE MODEL; EPIGENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85077454980     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0733-19.2019     Document Type: Review

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