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Social subordination stress and serotonin transporter polymorphisms: associations with brain white matter tract integrity and behavior in juvenile female macaques.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 1 Dec 2014
Howell Brittany R, Godfrey Jodi, Gutman David A, Michopoulos Vasiliki, Zhang Xiaodong, Nair Govind, Hu Xiaoping, Wilson Mark E, Sanchez Mar M
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We examined the relationship between social rank and brain white matter (WM) microstructure, and socioemotional behavior, and its modulation by serotonin (5HT) transporter (5HTT) polymorphisms in prepubertal female macaques. Using diffusion tensor imaging and tract-based spatial statistics, social status differences were found in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) WM and cortico-thalamic tracts, with subordinates...
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