Aripiprazole Facilitates Extinction of Conditioned Fear in Adolescent Rats

Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental disorder during adolescence, which is at least partly due to the resistance to extinction exhibited at this age. The dopaminergic system is known to be dysregulated during adolescence; therefore, we aimed to facilitate extinction in adolescent rat...

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Main Authors: Despina E. Ganella, Liubov Lee-Kardashyan, Sophia J. Luikinga, Danny L. D. Nguyen, Heather B. Madsen, Isabel C. Zbukvic, Russell Coulthard, Andrew J. Lawrence, Jee Hyun Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00076/full