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SUBMITTER: Scarante FF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5742214 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scarante Franciele F FF Vila-Verde Carla C Detoni Vinícius L VL Ferreira-Junior Nilson C NC Guimarães Francisco S FS Campos Alline C AC
Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 20171219
Exposure to stressful situations is one of the risk factors for the precipitation of several psychiatric disorders, including Major Depressive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Schizophrenia. The hippocampal formation is a forebrain structure highly associated with emotional, learning and memory processes; being particularly vulnerable to stress. Exposure to stressful stimuli leads to neuroplastic changes and imbalance between inhibitory/excitatory networks. These changes have been ass ...[more]