title: Regulation of dopamine system responsivity and its adaptive and pathological response to stress.
abstract: Although, historically, the norepinephrine system has attracted the majority of attention in the study of the stress response, the dopamine system has also been consistently implicated. It has long been established that stress plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. However, the neurobiological mechanisms that mediate the stress response and its effect in psychiatric diseases are not well understood. The dopamine system can play distinct roles in stress and psychiatric disorders. It is hypothesized that, even though the dopamine (DA) system forms the basis for a number of psychiatric disorders, the pathology is likely to originate in the afferent structures that are inducing dysregulation of the DA system. This review explores the current knowledge of afferent modulation of the stress/DA circuitry, and presents recent data focusing on the effect of stress on the DA system and its relevance to psychiatric disorders.
authors: Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
authors: Pauline
authors: P
authors: Belujon
authors: Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA graceaa@pitt.edu.
authors: Anthony A
authors: AA
authors: Grace
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000502:physiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine
keywords: amygdala; dopamine; hippocampus; psychiatric disorders; stress