Chronic stress-induced cellular changes in the medial prefrontal cortex and their potential clinical implications: Does hemisphere location matter?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Czéh, Boldizsár ^a   Perez Cruz, Claudia ^a   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a,b   Flügge, Gabriele ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Dendritic morphology; Hemispheric asymmetry; Lateralization; Mood disorder; Neuroplasticity; Neurotrophins; NG2 glia

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHRONIC STRESS; DENDRITE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS;

EID: 41949097012     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.031     Document Type: Review

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