Recent advances in understanding the role of the hypothalamic circuit during aggression

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Falkner, Annegret L ^a   Lin, Dayu ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Aggressive motivation; Circuits; Estrogen receptor alpha; Hypothalmus; Optogenetic stimulation; Optogenetics; VMHvl

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; PROTEIN FOS;

AGGRESSION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ABLATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS STIMULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROLATERAL PART; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84907584162     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00168     Document Type: Review

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