Short-term environmental enrichment is sufficient to counter stress-induced anxiety and associated structural and molecular plasticity in basolateral amygdala

A Ashokan, A Hegde, R Mitra - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2016 - Elsevier
… In the present study, we investigate if relatively short periods of environmental enrichment in
… within basolateral amygdala. Two weeks of environmental enrichment countermanded the …

[HTML][HTML] Short environmental enrichment in adulthood reverses anxiety and basolateral amygdala hypertrophy induced by maternal separation

AS Koe, A Ashokan, R Mitra - Translational Psychiatry, 2016 - nature.com
… This is congruent with prior observations showing centrality of basolateral amygdala
adult enrichment to rescue stress-induced anxiety, we show that enrichment renormalized …

Environmental enrichment protects against stress-induced anxiety: Role of glucocorticoid receptor, ERK, and CREB signaling in the basolateral amygdala

LS Novaes, NB Dos Santos, RFP Batalhote… - …, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental enrichment (EE) is an experimental animal model that enhances an animal's
… with structural changes in the hippocampus and basolateral amygdala (BLA). However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Early-life short-term environmental enrichment counteracts the effects of stress on anxiety-like behavior, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nuclear …

A Hegde, S Suresh, R Mitra - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… , anxiety-like behavior, basolateral amygdala structural plasticity, … basolateral amygdala.
We also investigated the ameliorative effects of a short-term sensory environmental enrichment

The medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, basolateral amygdala, and hippocampus regulate the amelioration of environmental enrichment and cue in fear …

YH Yu, YS Lim, CY Ou, KC Chang… - Behavioural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of evidence showed that environmental enrichment (EE) ameliorated
footshock‐induced fear behavior of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, no research …

Environmental enrichment prevents acute restraint stress-induced anxiety-related behavior but not changes in basolateral amygdala spine density

LS Novaes, NB Dos Santos, JG Perfetto… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
… behavior and dendritic branches in the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) of rats. In
this work, we demonstrate that exposure to environmental enrichment (EE) prevented stress-…

Environmental enrichment stimulates progenitor cell proliferation in the amygdala

H Okuda, K Tatsumi, M Makinodan… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… of an enriched environment on cell proliferation and differentiation in the murine amygdala.
The … may contribute to the beneficial aspects of environmental enrichment such as anxiolytic …

Effects of environmental enrichment on the activity of the amygdala in micrencephalic rats exposed to a novel open field

W Matsuda, A Ehara, K Nakadate… - Congenital …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Novel open field exposure in both CC and MC resulted in a marked increase in Fos
expression in the anterior and posterior parts of the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus, basomedial …

[PDF][PDF] A Novel Experience of Environmental Enrichment Affects the Basolateral and Lateral Amygdala Differently in Adolescent Rats, 8

CA Peggs, CE Gaillard - 2018 - libjournals.unca.edu
Environmental enrichment (EE) provides sensory and motor stimulation with same sex … The
lateral amygdala (LA) is the primary source of sensory input to the basolateral amygdala (BLA…

The anxiolytic effect of environmental enrichment is mediated via amygdalar CRF receptor type 1

Y Sztainberg, Y Kuperman, M Tsoory, M Lebow… - Molecular …, 2010 - nature.com
enriched conditions was associated with very low levels of CRFR1 mRNA expression in the
basolateral amygdala … mRNA expression in the basolateral amygdala induces a significant …