From anxiety to autism: Spectrum of abnormal social behaviors modeled by progressive disruption of inhibitory neuronal function in the basolateral amygdala in Wistar rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Truitt, William A ^a   Sajdyk, Tammy J ^a   Dietrich, Amy D ^a   Oberlin, Brandon ^a   McDougle, Christopher J ^a   Shekhar, Anantha ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Depression; Interneuron; Negative symptoms; Pervasive developmental disorders; Schizophrenia; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; SAPORIN; UROCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HABITUATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847106367     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0674-y     Document Type: Article

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