Commentary: behavioral phenotype.
PTSD arises by definition as a direct consequence of the experience of an acute severe stressor. The formation of traumatic memory and its extinction, sympathetic and adrenocortical stress systems activity in relation to individual vulnerability form the core of animal models for PTSD.
Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, University of Leiden, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands. m.oitzl@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
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