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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-3-4
pubmed:abstractText
The degree of behavioral control that an organism has over a stressor is a potent modulator of the stressor's impact; uncontrollable stressors produce numerous outcomes that do not occur if the stressor is controllable. Research on controllability has focused on brainstem nuclei such as the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). Here we find that the infralimbic and prelimbic regions of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFCv) in rats detect whether a stressor is under the organism's control. When a stressor is controllable, stress-induced activation of the DRN is inhibited by the mPFCv, and the behavioral sequelae of uncontrollable stress are blocked. This suggests a new function for the mPFCv and implies that the presence of control inhibits stress-induced neural activity in brainstem nuclei, in contrast to the prevalent view that such activity is induced by a lack of control.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1097-6256
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
365-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Afferent Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Electroshock, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Escape Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Fear, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-GABA Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Microdialysis, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Microinjections, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Muscimol, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Raphe Nuclei, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Serotonin, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Stress, Physiological, pubmed-meshheading:15696163-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Campus Box 345, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80903-0345, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.