Stress during puberty boosts metabolic activation associated with fear-extinction learning in hippocampus, basal amygdala and cingulate cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-101

  Toledo Rodriguez, Maria ^a   Pitiot, Alain ^a   Paus, Tomáš ^a,b   Sandi, Carmen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

2 Deoxyglucose; Adolescence; Brain metabolism; Fear memories; Gender differences; Stress

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863108838     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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