Stress often affects our social lives. When undergoing high-level or persistent stress,
individuals frequently retract from social interactions and become irritable and hostile …

Learning about motivationally important stimuli involves plasticity in the amygdala, a
temporal lobe structure. Amygdala‐dependent learning involves a growing number of …

Introduction Adverse early life experiences affect neuronal growth and maturation of reward
circuits that modify behavior under reward predicting conditions. Previous studies …

Aversive early life experiences in humans have been shown to result in deficits in the
function of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). In an effort to elucidate possible neurobiological …

Experiences in early life result in enduring and sometimes permanent differences in how the
central nervous and endocrine systems function. These changes are referred to as …

The composition of the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor receptor in GluN2A/GluN2B subunits
is important in determining its characteristics and its role in plasticity, a property of the brain …

Associative differential conditioning is an experimental protocol where multiple stimuli are
presented to an organism simultaneously, typically with one rewarded and the others …

The goal of this dissertation was to determine in an animal model the effects of an adverse
neonatal experience on the CRH system in the VTA, and accordingly to justify the effects of …

Είναι γνωστό πως οι πρώιμες εμπειρίες έχουν τόσο άμεσες όσο και μακροπρόθεσμες
επιπτώσεις στην λειτουργία και την ανάπτυξη του εγκεφάλου, και κατ'επέκταση στη …