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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages 28-38Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.02.042
Keywords
stress; prefrontal cortex; cognition; extinction; glutamate; N-methyl-D-aspartate
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- Intramural NIH HHS [ZIA AA000411-08] Funding Source: Medline
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The prefrontal cortex (PFC) mediates higher-order cognitive and executive functions that subserve various complex, adaptable behaviors, such as cognitive flexibility, attention, and working memory. Deficits in these functions typify multiple neuropsychiatric disorders that are caused or exacerbated by exposure to psychological stress. Here we review recent evidence examining the effects of stress on executive and cognitive functions in rodents and discuss an emerging body of evidence that implicates the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) as a potentially critical molecular mechanism mediating these effects. Future work in this area could open up new avenues for developing pharmacotherapies for ameliorating cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disease. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Neuroscience Disease Models. (c) 2012 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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