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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Biology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Coping strategies are crucial for stress resilience and can be active or passive.
  • Brain serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) plays an emerging role in determining coping behavior.
  • Coping styles vary across species, highlighting evolutionary influences on stress response.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the role of central nervous system serotonin in mediating coping behavior.
  • To examine how environmental challenges and early life experiences impact serotonin systems and coping outcomes.
  • To propose a neural circuit model for serotonin's modulation of coping behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review focusing on animal and human studies of coping with novel stressors.
  • Analysis of research on serotonin transporter and receptor variations in coping.
  • Examination of the influence of early and social experiences on serotonin function and coping.

Main Results:

  • Serotonin transmission is critical in determining species-specific coping behaviors.
  • Environmental factors across the lifespan significantly affect serotonin systems controlling coping.
  • Preclinical research highlights the parallels between animal and human coping mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • A medial prefrontal cortex-amygdala circuit, modulated by serotonin, is proposed to mediate stress responses.
  • Serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe, influenced by corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), engage this pathway via 5-HT1A receptors, GABA, and glutamate.
  • This circuit moderates adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors in response to stress.