GABAergic control of critical developmental periods for anxiety- and depression-related behavior in mice.

Vulnerability for anxiety and depressive disorders is thought to have origins in early life and is increasingly recognized to involve deficits in GABAergic neurotransmission. Mice that were rendered heterozygous for the γ2 subunit gene of GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs) show behavioral, cognitive, neu...

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Main Authors: Qiuying Shen, Thomas Fuchs, Nadia Sahir, Bernhard Luscher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3469546?pdf=render