Involvement of the ventral tegmental area in a rodent model of post-traumatic stress disorder

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 350-363

  Corral Frias, Nadia S ^a   Lahood, Ryan P ^b   Edelman Vogelsang, Kimberly E ^c   French, Edward D ^d   Fellous, Jean Marc ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c Undergraduate Biology Research Program   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

addiction; anxiety; dopamine; emotion; memory; nociception

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FOOTSHOCK; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84871437702     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.189     Document Type: Article

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