Stress enhances fear by forming new synapses with greater capacity for long-term potentiation in the amygdala

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1633, 2014, Pages

  Suvrathan, Aparna ^a,c   Bennur, Sharath ^a,d   Ghosh, Supriya ^a   Tomar, Anupratap ^a,b   Anilkumar, Shobha ^a   Chattarji, Sumantra ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spines; Emotion; Long term potentiation; Neural plasticity; NMDA receptors; Silent synapses

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; INHIBITION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; FEAR; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NMDA RECEPTORS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SILENT SYNAPSES; SYNAPSE; WISTAR RAT;

DENDRITIC SPINES; EMOTION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURAL PLASTICITY; NMDA RECEPTORS; SILENT SYNAPSES;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84888804359     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0151     Document Type: Article

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