Enduring good memories of infant trauma: Rescue of adult neurobehavioral deficits via amygdala serotonin and corticosterone interaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 881-886

  Rincón Cortés, Millie ^a,b,c   Barr, Gordon A ^d,e   Mouly, Anne Marie ^f   Shionoya, Kiseko ^g   Nuñez, Bestina S ^a   Sullivan, Regina M ^a,b,c  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^g LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Depression; Infant trauma; Safety signal; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAT; SOCIAL BONDING; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INJURY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

RATTUS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; HUMANS; INFANT; MEMORY; SEROTONIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84921465317     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416065112     Document Type: Article

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