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ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2021

A Role for the Amygdala in Impairments of Affective Behaviors Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Taylor A McCorkle, Jessica R Barson, Ramesh Raghupathi

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Review in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Taylor A McCorkleGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Jessica R BarsonGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Ramesh RaghupathiGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Drexel University · US

Funding

Dopaminergic Mechanisms Underlying Behavioral Deficits Following Mild TBIR01NS110898 · NINDS · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · PI RAGHUPATHI, RAMESH · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide 27 in the paraventricular thalamus and its projections: Role in ethanol drinkingR01AA028218 · NIAAA · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · PI BARSON, JESSICA ROSE · 2020 to 2023
$1.4M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA028218NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS110898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in chronic affective disorders such as depression, anxiety, and fear that persist up to years following injury and significantly impair the quality of life for patients. Although a great deal of research has contributed to defining symptoms of mild TBI, there are no adequate drug therapies for brain-injured individuals. Preclinical studies have modeled these deficits in affective behaviors post-injury to understand the underlying mechanisms with a view to developing appropriate treatment strategies. These studies have also unveiled sex differences that contribute to the varying phenotypes associated with each behavior. Although clinical and preclinical studies have viewed these behavioral deficits as separate entities with unique neurobiological mechanisms, mechanistic similarities suggest that a novel approach is needed to advance research on drug therapy. This review will discuss the circuitry involved in the expression of deficits in affective behaviors following mild TBI in humans and animals and provide evidence that the manifestation of impairment in these behaviors stems from an amygdala-dependent emotional processing deficit. It will highlight mechanistic similarities between these different types of affective behaviors that can potentially advance mild TBI drug therapy by investigating treatments for the deficits in affective behaviors as one entity, requiring the same treatment.

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anxietybasolateral amygdalacentral amygdalaCRFdepressionGABAmild TBIposttraumatic stress disorder

Identifiers

PMID33746719
PMCPMC7969709
OpenAlexW3134225176

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