Behavioral control blunts reactions to contemporaneous and future adverse events: Medial prefrontal cortex plasticity and a corticostriatal network

Neurobiology of Stress

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 12-22

  Maier, Steven F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Medial prefrontal cortex; Plasticity; Resilience; Stressor controllability; Striatum; Topedown inhibition

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN FOS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LIFE EVENT; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84921917310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23522895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2014.09.003     Document Type: Review

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