Talk:Locus ceruleus

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This page, locus ceruleus, needs to be edited by an expert. I began to edit, but I am just a med student and do not have the time/expretise on the subject. Many of teh facts are fuzzy or questionable and there are no citations.

__ I absolutely agree. This is a structure that plays a fundamental role not only in general arousal (i.e. alertness, drowsiness, etc.) but also plays a critical role in response selection during general task performance. The LC appears to play a large role in the extent to which we persist in optimizing human performance through the distribution of NE. It's a critical structure for behavior in general, and so some of that should be in here. I'm sure its role in PTSD is important, but that's perhaps a side-effect of what the structure actually DOES. Doesn't quite make sense that we have a little PTSD machine in our heads, eh? 76.199.1.210 05:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PTSD candidate circuit?

Can people provide references to what this is? Maybe start a separate article on this, or link appropriately? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.114.182 (talk) 23:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)