ReviewTrends in neurosciences2012
The Sturm und Drang of anabolic steroid use: angst, anxiety, and aggression.
Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Nandrolone alters the behavioral response to cocaine as well as striatal and cortical dopamine receptors of prepubertal male rats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Managing risks and harms associated with the use of anabolic steroids: a qualitative study.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use, Aggression, and Narcissism in Male Bodybuilders.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Chronic high-dose testosterone disrupts social cognition and enhances social dominance in male long-Evans rats.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Sleep pathology and use of anabolic androgen steroids among male weightlifters in Norway.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychiatric morbidity among men using anabolic steroids.Depression and anxiety · 2022Article
- No association between psychiatric symptoms and doses of anabolic steroids in a cohort of male and female bodybuilders.Drug testing and analysis · 2022Article
- Advances in the Determination of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids: From Standard Practices to Tailor-Designed Multidisciplinary Approaches.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Theory of mind in users of anabolic androgenic steroids.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Bumpy and Smoother Pathways of Puberty Hormone Change: A Novel Way to Define Gonadal Hormone Trajectories in Adolescents.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2020Article
- Anabolic androgenic steroid dependence is associated with impaired emotion recognition.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Structural brain characteristics of anabolic-androgenic steroid dependence in men.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- Chronic Testosterone Increases Impulsivity and Influences the Transcriptional Activity of the Alpha-2A Adrenergic Receptor Signaling Pathway in Rat Brain.Molecular neurobiology · 2019Article
- Anabolic-androgenic steroid users receiving health-related information; health problems, motivations to quit and treatment desires.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2019Article
- Anabolic steroids among resistance training practitioners.PloS one · 2019Article
- Exercise Attenuates Anabolic Steroids-Induced Anxiety via Hippocampal NPY and MC4 Receptor in Rats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- The Role of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids in Disruption of the Physiological Function in Discrete Areas of the Central Nervous System.Molecular neurobiology · 2018Review
- Psychosocial correlates of gap time to anabolic-androgenic steroid use.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Article
- Computational Assessment of Pharmacokinetics and Biological Effects of Some Anabolic and Androgen Steroids.Pharmaceutical research · 2018Article
- Defining the Construct of Synthetic Androgen Intoxication: An Application of General Brain Arousal.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are illicitly administered to enhance athletic performance and body image. Although conferring positive actions on performance, steroid abuse is associated with changes in anxiety and aggression. AAS users are often keenly invested in understanding the biological actions of these drugs. Thus, mechanistic information on AAS actions is important not only for the biomedical community, but also for steroid users. Here we review findings from animal studies on the impact of AAS exposure on neural systems that are crucial for the production of anxiety and aggression, and compare the effects of the different classes of AAS and their potential signaling mechanisms, as well as context-, age- and sex-dependent aspects of their actions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.