Safety signals mitigate the consequences of uncontrollable stress via a circuit involving the sensory insular cortex and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 458-464

  Christianson, John P ^a   Jennings, Joshua H ^a   Ragole, Thomas ^a   Flyer, Johana G N ^a   Benison, Alexander M ^a   Barth, Daniel S ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^a   Maier, Steven F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; anxiety; conditioned inhibition; fear; learned helplessness; rat

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZING; INSULA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAFETY; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 80051468912     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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