Serotonin and stress: Protective or malevolent actions in the biobehavioral response to repeated trauma?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1032, Issue , 2004, Pages 267-272

  Harvey, Brian H ^a   Naciti, Carla ^c   Brand, Linda ^c   Stein, Dan J ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cortex; Hippocampus; Memory; PTSD; Sensitization; Serotonin; Stress; TDS

Indexed keywords

FENCLONINE; FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; BINDING AFFINITY; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STRESS;

EID: 14544290436     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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