Adolescent Social Stress Produces an Enduring Activation of the Rat Locus Coeruleus and Alters its Coherence with the Prefrontal Cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1376-1385

  Zitnik, Gerard A ^a   Curtis, Andrè L ^a   Wood, Susan K ^b   Arner, Jay ^a   Valentino, Rita J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN WAVES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84960875015     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.289     Document Type: Article

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