Acute vs Chronic Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning
type: Grant
alternate name: 5R01MH115678-04
description: Project Abstract Stress can have a profound detrimental impact on our behavior, predisposing us to anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression. Given the high prevalence of these disorders understanding the basic biological and psychological processes is vitally important if we wish to address these significant problems and develop effective treatments. One question in the literature is whether a single (acute) exposure to stress or repeated (chronic) stress has similar effects. A second question is how severe must stress be in order to produce detrimental effects. Do repeated mild stressful experiences have an added impact that equals that of a more severe acute stressor? Does chronic stress exposure have a greater impact than an equally intense acute stressful experience? Surprisingly, while there is a large basic science literature on stress, that literature simply does not answer these questions. This is because the methods employed have totally co
amount: MonetaryAmount
  value: 379711
  currency: USD
funder: NIH — NIH
funder alt: US National Institutes of Health
recipient: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
start date: 2018-05-17
end date: 2023-02-28
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10128220
source organization: NIH RePORTER
publisher: AI Analytics
keywords: R01
keywords: NIH
keywords: 5

AI Analytics
type: Organization