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Dynamic plasticity: The role of glucocorticoids, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and other trophic factors

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A growing body of evidence suggests a more nuanced role for BDNF in stress-related learning and memory, where it acts primarily as a facilitator of plasticity and is dependent upon the coactivation of glucocorticoids and other factors as the determinants of the final cellular response.
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This article is published in Neuroscience.The article was published on 2013-06-03 and is currently open access. It has received 212 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor & Tropomyosin receptor kinase B.

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The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation

TL;DR: Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation exerts beneficial effects on physical and mental health, and cognitive performance, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear.
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Mechanisms of stress in the brain

TL;DR: The brain is the central organ involved in perceiving and adapting to social and physical stressors via multiple interacting mediators, from the cell surface to the cytoskeleton to epigenetic regulation and nongenomic mechanisms.
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Stress and glucocorticoid receptor-dependent mechanisms in long-term memory: from adaptive responses to psychopathologies.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that stress promotes the formation of strong long-term memories is proposed because the activation of hippocampal GRs after learning is coupled to the recruitment of the growth and pro-survival BDNF/cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) pathway, which is well-know to be a general mechanism required for long- term memory formation.
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BDNF and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity.

TL;DR: The evidence pointing to a fundamental role of this neurotrophin in LTP is reviewed, especially within the hippocampus, and the synergy between TrkB and glucocorticoid receptor signaling to determine cellular responses to stress is discussed.
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Hippocampal gene expression changes underlying stress sensitization and recovery

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how chronic restraint stress modulates gene expression in response to a novel stressor in the hippocampus of wild-type mice and the extent to which these changes last beyond the end of CRS and suggested that the effects of naive stress are distinct from Cort elevation.
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Brain corticosteroid receptor balance in health and disease.

TL;DR: The balance in actions mediated by the two corticosteroid receptor types in these neurons appears critical for neuronal excitability, stress responsiveness, and behavioral adaptation and Dysregulation of this MR/GR balance brings neurons in a vulnerable state with consequences for regulation of the stress response and enhanced vulnerability to disease in genetically predisposed individuals.
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TL;DR: The most fascinating aspect of Trk receptor-mediated signaling is its interplay with signaling promoted by the pan-neurotrophin receptor p75NTR, which activates a distinct set of signaling pathways within cells that are in some instances synergistic and in other instances antagonistic to those activated by Trk receptors.
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