Individual differences in frontolimbic circuitry and Anxiety emerge with adolescent changes in endocannabinoid signaling across species

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

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 4500-4505

  Gee, Dylan G ^a   Fetcho, Robert N ^a   Jing, Deqiang ^a   Li, Anfei ^a   Glatt, Charles E ^a   Drysdale, Andrew T ^a   Cohen, Alexandra O ^a   Dellarco, Danielle V ^a   Yang, Rui R ^a   Dale, Anders M ^b,c   Jernigan, Terry L ^c   Lee, Francis S ^a   Casey, B J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cross species; FAAH; Frontolimbic; Gene development

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; ENDOCANNABINOID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FRONTAL LOBE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIMBIC LOBE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84964397346     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600013113     Document Type: Article

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