2008
A History of Corticosterone Exposure Regulates Fear Extinction and Cortical NR2B, GluR2/3, and BDNF
Gourley SL, Kedves AT, Olausson P, Taylor JR. A History of Corticosterone Exposure Regulates Fear Extinction and Cortical NR2B, GluR2/3, and BDNF. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008, 34: 707-716. PMID: 18719621, PMCID: PMC3679657, DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPosttraumatic stress disorderConditioned fearFear memory acquisitionFear extinction trainingVentromedial prefrontal cortexContextual fear conditioningMedial orbitofrontal cortexPrior chronic exposureExtinction learningFear extinctionExtinction trainingFear conditioningFear statesImpairs extinctionStress disorderBehavioral flexibilityMemory acquisitionOrbitofrontal cortexPrefrontal cortexNeural systemsAMPA receptor subunitsCortical regionsActive learning processPrior stressGlucocorticoid exposure
1999
Altered frontal cortical dopaminergic transmission in monkeys after subchronic phencyclidine exposure: involvement in frontostriatal cognitive deficits
Jentsch J, Taylor J, Elsworth J, Redmond D, Roth R. Altered frontal cortical dopaminergic transmission in monkeys after subchronic phencyclidine exposure: involvement in frontostriatal cognitive deficits. Neuroscience 1999, 90: 823-832. PMID: 10218783, DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00481-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCognitive deficitsSubchronic phencyclidine administrationDorsolateral prefrontal cortexFrontal cortexCortical dopamine transmissionReduced dopaminergic functionFrontostriatal functionDetour taskCognitive performanceDopamine utilizationPhencyclidine exposurePrefrontal cortexPerformance impairmentPrelimbic cortexBrain regionsCognitive dysfunctionCortical impairmentCortical regionsCognitive impairmentDopaminergic functionPhencyclidine administrationDopamine transmissionSpecific subregionsCortexPsychotomimetic drug phencyclidine