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| Title |
Modulation of medial prefrontal cortical activity using in vivo recordings and optogenetics
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| Published in |
Molecular Brain, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-6606-5-36 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Guangchen Ji, Volker Neugebauer |
| Abstract |
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) serves major executive functions. mPFC output to subcortical brain areas such as the amygdala controls emotional processing and plays an important role in fear extinction. Impaired mPFC function correlates with extinction deficits in anxiety disorders such as PTSD and with cognitive decision-making deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders and persistent pain. Controlling mPFC output is a desirable therapeutic goal in neuropsychiatric disorders but functional differences of cell types (pyramidal cells and interneurons) and regions (infralimbic and prelimbic) represent a challenge. This electrophysiological study used optogenetics for the cell- and region-specific modulation of mPFC pyramidal output in the intact anesthetized animal. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 305 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 292 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 88 | 29% |
| Researcher | 55 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 45 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 39 | 13% |
| Unknown | 28 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 99 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 98 | 32% |
| Psychology | 33 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 1% |
| Other | 16 | 5% |
| Unknown | 37 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2013.
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#552
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