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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Springer Nature
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107221 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-1071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0010-1595 |