Publication Date:
2012-03-01
Description:
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by a hypermnesia of the trauma and by a memory impairment that decreases the ability to restrict fear to the appropriate context. Infusion of glucocorticoids in the hippocampus after fear conditioning induces PTSD-like memory impairments and an altered pattern of neural activation in the hippocampal-amygdalar circuit. Mice become unable to identify the context as the correct predictor of the threat and show fear responses to a discrete cue not predicting the threat in normal conditions. These data demonstrate PTSD-like memory impairments in rodents and identify a potential pathophysiological mechanism of this condition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kaouane, Nadia -- Porte, Yves -- Vallee, Monique -- Brayda-Bruno, Laurent -- Mons, Nicole -- Calandreau, Ludovic -- Marighetto, Aline -- Piazza, Pier Vincenzo -- Desmedt, Aline -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1510-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1207615. Epub 2012 Feb 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉CNRS UMR 5228, Centre de Neurosciences Integratives et Cognitives, Talence, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22362879" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amygdala/*physiopathology
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Animals
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Conditioning (Psychology)
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Corticosterone/*administration & dosage/blood/metabolism/pharmacology
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Cues
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Electroshock
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*Fear
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Hippocampus/*physiopathology
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Male
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Memory Disorders/chemically induced/*physiopathology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/metabolism
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Restraint, Physical
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*physiopathology
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Stress, Psychological
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
