Prefrontal/amygdalar system determines stress coping behavior through 5-HT/GABA connection

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2057-2067

  Andolina, Diego ^a,b   Maran, Dario ^c   Valzania, Alessandro ^a,c   Conversi, David ^a,c   Puglisi Allegra, Stefano ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

coping; corticolimbic; disconnection; GABA; serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALLYLGLYCINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84882370662     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.107     Document Type: Article

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