Stress-induced prefrontal reorganization and executive dysfunction in rodents

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 773-783

  Holmes, Andrew ^a   Wellman, Cara L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional set shifting; Cognitive flexibility; Dendrite; Executive function; Glucocorticoid; Infralimbic; Mouse; Neuron; Orbitofrontal; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic; Rat; Stress; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; STRESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; FEAR; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 65249172084     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.11.005     Document Type: Review

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