Stress leads to contrasting effects on the levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor in the hippocampus and amygdala.

Recent findings on stress induced structural plasticity in rodents have identified important differences between the hippocampus and amygdala. The same chronic immobilization stress (CIS, 2 h/day) causes growth of dendrites and spines in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), but dendritic atrophy in hippo...

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Main Authors: Harini Lakshminarasimhan, Sumantra Chattarji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3260293?pdf=render