Amygdalo-cortical sprouting continues into early adulthood: Implications for the development of normal and abnormal function during adolescence

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 453, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 116-130

  Cunningham, Miles Gregory ^a,b   Bhattacharyya, Sujoy ^a,b   Benes, Francine Mary ^a,b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Basolateral nucleus; Biocytin; Medial prefrontal cortex; Postnatal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOTAXIS;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; GYRUS CINGULI; LYSINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037064445     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10376     Document Type: Article

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