Fast positive feedback between the adrenocortical stress response and a brain mechanism involved in aggressive behavior

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1062-1070

  Kruk, Menno R ^a   Meelis, Wout ^a   Halász, József ^b   Haller, József ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENALECTOMY; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODE; FACILITATION; INJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRESS; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 5144233099     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.5.1062     Document Type: Article

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