Functionally altered neurocircuits in a rat model of treatment-resistant depression show prominent role of the habenula

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 381-390

  Gass, Natalia ^a   Cleppien, Dirk ^a   Zheng, Lei ^a,d   Schwarz, Adam James ^b,c   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a   Vollmayr, Barbara ^a   Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^a   Sartorius, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital learned helplessness; Depression; Functional connectivity; Habenula; Rat; RCBV

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HABENULA; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; HABENULA; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84894334874     PISSN: 0924977X     EISSN: 18737862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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