Mapping stress networks using functional magnetic resonance imaging in awake animals.

ABSTRACT: The neurobiology of stress is studied through behavioral neuroscience, endocrinology, neuronal morphology and neurophysiology. There is a shift in focus toward progressive changes throughout stress paradigms and individual susceptibility to stress that requires methods that allow for longitudinal study design and study of individual differences in stress response. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), with the advantages of noninvasiveness and a large field of view, can be used for functionally mapping brain-wide regions and circuits critical to the stress response, making it suitable for longitudinal studies and understanding individual variability of short-term and long-term consequences of stress exposure. In addition, fMRI can be applied to both animals and humans, which is hig

SUBMITTER: Dopfel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234259 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature