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Prefrontal plasticity and stress inoculation-induced resilience
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Katz, Maor
Liu, Chunlei
Schaer, Marie
Parker, Karen J.
Ottet, Marie-Christine
Epps, Averi
Buckmaster, Christine L.
Bammer, Roland
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Published in Developmental Neuroscience. 2009, vol. 31, no. 4, p. 293-9
Abstract Coping with mild early life stress tends to make subsequent coping efforts more effective and therefore more likely to be used as a means of arousal regulation and resilience. Here we show that this developmental learning-like process of stress inoculation increases ventromedial prefrontal cortical volumes in peripubertal monkeys. Larger volumes do not reflect increased cortical thickness but instead represent surface area expansion of ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Expansion of ventromedial prefrontal cortex coincides with increased white matter myelination inferred from diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging. These findings suggest that the process of coping with early life stress increases prefrontal myelination and expands a region of cortex that broadly controls arousal regulation and resilience.
Keywords Animals — Anxiety, Separation/physiopathology/psychology — Female — Humans — Male — Neuronal Plasticity/physiology — Prefrontal Cortex/anatomy & histology/physiology — Random Allocation — Saimiri — Stress, Psychological/physiopathology/psychology
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PMID: 19546566
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de psychiatrie
Research group Laboratoire d'imagerie et de psychopathologie développementale (693)
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(ISO format) 		KATZ, Maor et al. Prefrontal plasticity and stress inoculation-induced resilience. In: Developmental Neuroscience, 2009, vol. 31, n° 4, p. 293-9. doi: 10.1159/000216540 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:5423

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