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 hypotheses t...

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Main Authors: Gisabella, Barbara, Farah, Shadia, Peng, Xiaoyu, Burgos-Robles, Anthony Noel, Lim, Seh Hong, Goosens, Ki Ann
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Nature 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107221
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-1071
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0010-1595