title: [Corticosteroid hormones and the brain].
abstract: The anatomical and functional links between the hormone stress axis and the cortico-limbic brain regions which integrate emotion and motivation are well documented. It is important, considering the consequences of stress on the brain, to take into account the regulatory buffer capacities of the personality-cognitive processes. Another point of interest is evaluation of the long term effects of repeated life events on chronic environmental pressures which induce brain negative feedback defects and, subsequently, insidious cellular changes in regions such as the hippocampus that lead to memory or adaptive impairments. An example is provided by perinatal stress that induces, later in life, both hormonal and cognitive deleterious changes.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U259, Laboratoire de Psychobiologie des Comportements Adaptatifs, Bordeaux.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Le Moal
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vallée
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maccari
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Montaron
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Piazza
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Abrous
mesh_terms: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008032:Limbic System / Q000502:physiology; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D005938:Glucocorticoids