Stress as a one-armed bandit: Differential effects of stress paradigms on the morphology, neurochemistry and behavior in the rodent amygdala

Neurobiology of Stress

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 195-208

  Wilson, Marlene A ^a,b   Grillo, Claudia A ^a   Fadel, Jim R ^a   Reagan, Lawrence P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Basolateral amygdala; Central amygdala; Glutamate; Major depressive disorder; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CELL DENSITY; CHRONIC STRESS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 84931269940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23522895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2015.06.001     Document Type: Review

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