The Role of the Rodent Insula in Anxiety
The human insula has been consistently reported to be overactivated in all anxiety disorders, activation which has been suggested to be proportional to the level of anxiety and shown to decrease with effective anxiolytic treatment. Nonetheless, studies evaluating the direct role of the insula in anx...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2019.00330/full |