Electrical stimulation of rat medial prefrontal cortex enhances forebrain serotonin output: Implications for electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation in depression

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 391-398

  Juckel, Georg ^b   Mendlin, Anna ^a   Jacobs, Barry L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Electroconvulsive therapy; Microdialysis; Prefrontal cortex; Serotonin; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0032813322     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(98)00097-9     Document Type: Article

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