{"id":136809,"date":"2022-03-13T23:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/precise-control-of-brain-circuit-alters-mood"},"modified":"2022-03-13T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:21:23","slug":"precise-control-of-brain-circuit-alters-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/precise-control-of-brain-circuit-alters-mood","title":{"rendered":"Precise control of brain circuit alters mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/precise-control-of-brain-circuit-alters-mood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stress-susceptible animals that behaved as if they were depressed or anxious were restored to relatively normal behavior by tweaking the system, according to a study appearing in the July 20 issue of Neuron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you \u2018turn the volume up\u2019 on animals that hadn\u2019t experienced stress, they start normal and then they have a problem,\u201d said lead researcher Kafui Dzirasa, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and neurobiology. \u201cBut in the animals that had experienced stress and didn\u2019t do well with it, you had to turn their volume up to get them back to normal. It looked like stress had turned the volume down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress-susceptible animals that behaved as if they were depressed or anxious were restored to relatively normal behavior by tweaking the system, according to a study appearing in the July 20 issue of Neuron. \u201cIf you \u2018turn the volume up\u2019 on animals that hadn\u2019t experienced stress, they start normal and then they have a problem,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}