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Originally Posted by Mari
Hi,
Researchers have not focused much on anxiety:
I found one promising reference on Anxiety that I do not have access too via Google Scholar.
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HI,
I found the abstract to the article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15167547
Increased anxiety in mice lacking vitamin D receptor gene.
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Vitamin D is a steroid hormone with many important functions in the brain, mediated through the vitamin D nuclear receptor. Numerous human and animal data link vitamin D dysfunctions to various behavioural disorders.
To examine this problem, we studied whether genetic ablation of vitamin D receptors in mice may be associated with altered emotional behaviours. Here we show that the receptor-deficient mice demonstrate increased anxiety-like behaviours when subjected to a battery of behavioural tests. These studies suggest that vitamin D and its receptors are an important factor in the brain, whose imbalance may significantly affect emotional behaviour.
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