A rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder reproduces the hippocampal deficits seen in the human syndrome
Despite recent progress, the causes and pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain poorly understood, partly because of ethical limitations inherent to human studies.One approach to circumvent this obstacle is to study PTSD in a valid animal model of the human syndrome.In one such model, extreme and long-lasting behavioral mani