Prefrontal cortex reactivity underlies trait vulnerability to chronic social defeat stress

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Hultman, Rainbo ^a   Hughes, Dalton ^b   Michel, Nadine ^a   Katz, Brittany M ^a   Dzirasa, Kafui ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RODENT; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; MURINE MODEL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SOCIAL STRESS; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84905226952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5537     Document Type: Article

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