Recent findings on stress induced structural plasticity in rodents have identified important
differences between the hippocampus and amygdala. The same chronic immobilization …

Chronic restraint stress (CRS) induces the remodeling (ie, retraction and simplification) of
the apical dendrites of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons in rats, suggesting that …

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a secreted protein that has been linked to
numerous aspects of plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS). Stress-induced …

Chronic stress is a trigger for several psychiatric disorders, including depression; however,
critical individual differences in resilience to both the behavioral and the neurochemical …

Chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) is a widely used animal model of depression. The
present study was undertaken to investigate behavioral, physiological and molecular effects …

Stress regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is implicated in the
hippocampal damage observed in depression. BDNF has a complex gene structure with …

Social defeat stress is an ethologically salient stressor which activates dopaminergic areas
and, when experienced repeatedly, has long-term effects on dopaminergic function and …

Daily restraint for 3 weeks was shown to atrophy dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal
neurons in rats. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which maintains neuronal …

Exposure of an organism to chronic psychosocial stress may affect brain-derived
neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression that has been implicated in the etiology of psychiatric …

Physical exercise and stressful experiences have been shown to exert opposite effects on
behavioral functions and brain plasticity, partly by involving the action of brain‐derived …