Modelling post-traumatic stress disorder in rats: hypervigilance and spread of fear [ 2018 - 2020 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Vincent Laurent ,  Prof Reginald Westbrook

Brief description Post-traumatic stress disorder is characterized by hypervigilance and spread of fear across a network of trauma related memories. The consequences of hypervigilance for information processing, and the mechanisms involved in the spread of fear, are unknown. This project uses animal models to identify these consequences and mechanisms, and their substrates in the brain. It examines how a network of trauma related memories can be erased, and thus, how core symptoms of the disorder may be treated.

Funding Amount $AUD 353,248.20

Funding Scheme Project Grants

Notes Standard Project Grant