Stress hormones: Good or bad for posttraumatic stress disorder risk?

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 09:36 in Psychology & Sociology

Using an animal model of PTSD, researchers demonstrate that elevated levels of glucocorticoids at the time of acute stress confers protection against anxiety-like behavior and the delayed enhancing effect of stress on synaptic connectivity in the basolateral amygdala.

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