The amygdala and emotionally-mediated sudden cutaneous vasoconstriction in rats

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/535025

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Discovering how the brain organizes our emotional life is important for understanding mental illness. In rats, blood flow to the skin falls when the animal detects a possibly dangerous event. Rats go pale with fright , just as humans do. The falls in blood flow are inhibited by drugs used to treat people with schizophrenia. The grant investigates whether the amygdala is an important brain centre controlling the skin blood vessels, and whether anti-schizophrenia drugs act in the amygdala.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $461,788.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical infection agents (incl. prions)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Biology of psychopathology | Neurobiological effects of clozapine | Pathophysiology of schizophrenia | Psychiatry | Psychoemotional stress | amygdala | antipsychotic | central autonomic control | emotion | schizophrenia

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