Why are women so vulnerable to anxiety, trauma-related and stress-related disorders? The potential role of sex hormones

SH Li, BM Graham - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2017 - thelancet.com
Increased prevalence, severity, and burden of anxiety, trauma-related and stress-related
disorders in women compared with men has been well documented. Evidence from a variety …

Catecholaminergic systems in stress: structural and molecular genetic approaches

R Kvetnansky, EL Sabban… - Physiological …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
Stressful stimuli evoke complex endocrine, autonomic, and behavioral responses that are
extremely variable and specific depending on the type and nature of the stressors. We first …

[BOOK][B] The female brain

L Brizendine - 2007 - books.google.com
Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

Neurobiological mechanisms of stress resilience and implications for the aged population

C Faye, JC McGowan, CA Denny… - Current …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Stress is a common reaction to an environmental adversity, but a dysregulation
of the stress response can lead to psychiatric illnesses such as major depressive disorder …

Differential susceptibility of the develo** brain to contextual adversity and stress

WT Boyce - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016 - nature.com
A swiftly growing volume of literature, comprising both human and animal studies and
employing both observational and experimental designs, has documented striking individual …

Imaging phenotypes of major depressive disorder: genetic correlates

JB Savitz, WC Drevets - Neuroscience, 2009 - Elsevier
Imaging techniques are a potentially powerful method of identifying phenotypes that are
associated with, or are indicative of, a vulnerability to develo** major depressive disorder …

The preservation of two infant temperaments into adolescence

J Kagan, N Snidman, V Kahn, S Towsley… - Monographs of the …, 2007 - JSTOR
This Monograph reports theoretically relevant behavioral, biological, and self-report
assessments of a sample of 14-17-year-olds who had been classified into one of four …

Effects of genetic and early environmental risk factors for depression on serotonin transporter expression and methylation profiles

M Wankerl, R Miller, C Kirschbaum, J Hennig… - Translational …, 2014 - nature.com
The serotonin transporter (SERT) gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) has been
implicated in moderating the link between life stress and depression. However, respective …

Female athlete triad: future directions for energy availability and eating disorder research and practice

NI Williams, SM Statuta, A Austin - Clinics in sports medicine, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite over three decades of research on the Female Athlete Triad, research gaps remain.
Although low energy availability (EA) is the key etiological factor in the Triad and the …

Epigenetics of functional hypothalamic amenorrhea

L Fontana, E Garzia, G Marfia, V Galiano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (FHA) is a temporary infertility characterized by the
suppression of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis, induced by the inhibition of …