The antidepressant effects of ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation is associated with neural activation in the medial part of the subthalamic nucleus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 279, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-21

  Lim, Lee Wei ^a   Janssen, Marcus L F ^b   Kocabicak, Ersoy ^c   Temel, Yasin ^b  

^a SUNWAY UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cingulate gyrus (Cg); High frequency stimulation (HFS); Nucleus accumbens (NAc); Subthalamic nucleus (STN); Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FORCED SWIM TEST; IMMOBILITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SWIMMING;

EID: 84911072066     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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