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Behavioral and Neurostructural changes associated with Chronic Amygdala Hyperactivation
2021-09-11
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<h4>Background</h4> The amygdala (AMY) is a key brain region of the limbic system that plays a critical role in emotion processing and stress response. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies identified abnormal AMY activation in psychiatric illnesses including major depressive disorder (MDD). Stress exposure is a major precipitating factor of MDD episodes which are associated with AMY hyperactivity....
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- Literature Corpus work
- 067b2e13-0d3f-5351-8e51-ccf4e9c93d61
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.09.11.459894
