Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Allsop, Stephen A ^a,b   Vander Weele, Caitlin M ^a   Wichmann, Romy ^a   Tye, Kay M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autism; Basolateral maygdala; Mouse models of affective disorders; Optogenetics; Social deficits; Social interaction; Ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 84904391507     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00241     Document Type: Article

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