[HTML][HTML] Animal models of anxiety disorders and stress

AC Campos, MV Fogaça, DC Aguiar… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
Anxiety and stress-related disorders are severe psychiatric conditions that affect
performance in daily tasks and represent a high cost to public health. The initial observation …

Neuroendocrine pharmacology of stress

GA Carrasco, LD Van de Kar - European journal of pharmacology, 2003 - Elsevier
Exposure to hostile conditions initiates responses organized to enhance the probability of
survival. These coordinated responses, known as stress responses, are composed of …

Serotonin in affective control

P Dayan, QJM Huys - Annual review of neuroscience, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Serotonin is a neuromodulator that is extensively entangled in fundamental aspects of brain
function and behavior. We present a computational view of its involvement in the control of …

Serotonin and brain development

MSK Sodhi, E Sanders-Bush - International review of neurobiology, 2004 - Elsevier
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT), the “happy hormone,” has a phylogenetically ancient
role in neural transmission (Turlejski, 1996). Because the serotonergic system has a …

Do animal models of anxiety predict anxiolytic-like effects of antidepressants?

F Borsini, J Podhorna, D Marazziti - Psychopharmacology, 2002 - Springer
Chronically administered antidepressant drugs, particularly selective serotonin (5-HT)
reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are clinically effective in the treatment of all anxiety disorders …

Serotonin in fear conditioning processes

EP Bauer - Behavioural brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
This review describes the latest developments in our understanding of how the serotonergic
system modulates Pavlovian fear conditioning, fear expression and fear extinction. These …

Glucocorticoid receptor activation is involved in producing abnormal phenotypes of single-prolonged stress rats: a putative post-traumatic stress disorder model

K Kohda, K Harada, K Kato, A Hoshino, J Motohashi… - Neuroscience, 2007 - Elsevier
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder caused by
traumatic experience, and presents with characteristic symptoms, such as intrusive …

Reward processing by the dorsal raphe nucleus: 5-HT and beyond

M Luo, J Zhou, Z Liu - Learning & Memory, 2015 - learnmem.cshlp.org
The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) represents one of the most sensitive reward sites in the
brain. However, the exact relationship between DRN neuronal activity and reward signaling …

The serotonergic system and anxiety

JA Gordon, R Hen - Neuromolecular medicine, 2004 - Springer
The wide use of serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonin receptor agonists in anxiety
disorders has suggested a key role for the modulatory neurotransmitter in anxiety. However …

Acute selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors increase conditioned fear expression: blockade with a 5-HT2C receptor antagonist

NS Burghardt, DEA Bush, BS McEwen, JE LeDoux - Biological psychiatry, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) effectively treat various
anxiety disorders, although symptoms of anxiety are often exacerbated during early stages …