Activity of a vmPFC-DRN Pathway Corresponds With Resistance to Acute Social Defeat Stress

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a critical role in stress resilience through top-down inhibition of key stress-sensitive limbic and hindbrain structures, including the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). In a model of experience-dependent stress resistance, socially dominant Syrian hamsters...

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Main Authors: J. Alex Grizzell, Thomas T. Clarity, Nate B. Graham, Brooke N. Dulka, Matthew A. Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncir.2020.00050/full