The Role of the Rodent Insula in Anxiety

The human insula has been consistently reported to be overactivated in all anxiety disorders, activation which has been suggested to be proportional to the level of anxiety and shown to decrease with effective anxiolytic treatment. Nonetheless, studies evaluating the direct role of the insula in anx...

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Main Authors: Maxs Méndez-Ruette, Sergio Linsambarth, Rodrigo Moraga-Amaro, Daisy Quintana-Donoso, Luis Méndez, Giovanni Tamburini, Francisca Cornejo, Rodrigo F. Torres, Jimmy Stehberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2019.00330/full