Defeat-induced activation of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex is necessary for resistance to conditioned defeat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 158-164

  Morrison, Kathleen E ^a,b   Bader, Lauren R ^a   McLaughlin, Colleen N ^a   Cooper, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Dominance; Infralimbic cortex; Resilience; Social defeat; Social stress

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CRICETINAE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MUSCIMOL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84873149788     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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