ReviewFrontiers of medicine2022
Prefrontal cortical circuits in anxiety and fear: an overview.
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- Exercise-induced PV network plasticity in the prelimbic cortex regulates the expression of fear memory in male mice.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Alterations of Adult Prefrontal Circuits Induced by Early Postnatal Fluoxetine Treatment Mediated by 5-HT7 Receptors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sweet spot mapping and structural connectivity in subthalamic stimulation: predicting neuropsychiatric outcomes in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Exercise-Activated mPFC Tri-Synaptic Pathway Ameliorates Depression-Like Behaviors in Mouse.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Diethyl nitrosamine-induces neurobehavioral deficit, oxido-nitrosative stress in rats' brain: a neuroprotective role of diphenyl diselenide.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Elevated dorsal medial prefrontal cortex to lateral habenula pathway activity mediates chronic stress-induced depressive and anxiety-like behaviors.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
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- Sleep Disturbances in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Role of Calcium Homeostasis Imbalance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Pathological anxiety is among the most difficult neuropsychiatric diseases to treat pharmacologically, and it represents a major societal problem. Studies have implicated structural changes within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and functional changes in the communication of the PFC with distal brain structures in anxiety disorders. Treatments that affect the activity of the PFC, including cognitive therapies and transcranial magnetic stimulation, reverse anxiety- and fear-associated circuit abnormalities through mechanisms that remain largely unclear. While the subjective experience of a rodent cannot be precisely determined, rodent models hold great promise in dissecting well-conserved circuits. Newly developed genetic and viral tools and optogenetic and chemogenetic techniques have revealed the intricacies of neural circuits underlying anxiety and fear by allowing direct examination of hypotheses drawn from existing psychological concepts. This review focuses on studies that have used these circuit-based approaches to gain a more detailed, more comprehensive, and more integrated view on how the PFC governs anxiety and fear and orchestrates adaptive defensive behaviors to hopefully provide a roadmap for the future development of therapies for pathological anxiety.
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