Université de Fribourg

Postnatal development of the amygdala: a stereological study in rats

Chareyron, Loïc J. ; Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2012, vol. 520, no. 16, p. 3745–3763

The amygdala is the central component of a functional brain system regulating fear and emotional behaviors. Studies of the ontogeny of fear behaviors reveal the emergence of distinct fear responses at different postnatal ages. Here, we performed a stereological analysis of the rat amygdala to characterize the cellular changes underlying its normal structural development. Distinct amygdala nuclei...