Deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum increases BDNF in the fear extinction circuit

Deep brain stimulation of the ventral striatum increases BDNF in the fear extinction circuit

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) reduces the symptoms of treatment-resistant obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and improves response to extinction-based therapies. We recently reported that DBS-like stimulation of a rat homologue of VC/VS, the dorsal-V...

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Main Authors: Fabricio H Do-Monte, Jose eRodriguez-Romaguera, Luis E Rosas-Vidal, Gregory J Quirk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Amygdala
Anxiety Disorders
Prefrontal Cortex
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Fos
high-frequency stimulation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00102/full

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