Growth hormone biases amygdala network activation after fear learning

Prolonged stress exposure is a risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder, a disorder characterized by the 'over-encoding' of a traumatic experience. A potential mechanism by which this occurs is through upregulation of growth hormone (GH) in the amygdala. Here we test the hy...

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Main Authors: Gisabella, Barbara (Contributor), Farah, Shadia (Contributor), Peng, Xiaoyu (Contributor), Burgos-Robles, Anthony Noel (Contributor), Lim, Seh Hong (Contributor), Goosens, Ki Ann (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature, 2017-03-07T18:20:17Z.
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