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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Lett. 2019 Apr 1;704:36–44. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.03.050

Table 2.

5HTR distribution in animal and human brains specific to symptom group.

5-HTR
family
Symptom
group(s)
Distribution and Changes
Animal Human
5-HTR1 Cognition Hippocampus[139], prefrontal cortex[18] Hippocampus[139], rostral raphe nuclei [12][80], temporal cortex[40]
BPSD Frontal, temporal [104][26], amygdala[80] Unknown
5-HTR2 Cognition Hippocampus [139], prefrontal cortex [18][80], amygdala[80] Hippocampus[139], prefrontal cortex[48]
BPSD Frontal[105], temporal[80], cingulate, hippocampus, amygdala[80] Prefrontal[79][102], bed nucleus of stria termalis[78], amygdala[78],
hippocampus[78], nucleus accumbens[102][105]
5-HTR3 Cognition Prefrontal cortex[18], limbic system[139] Hippocampus[57][139]
BPSD Amygdala, hippocampus[57] Hippocampus[86], amygdala[86]
5-HTR4 Cognition Hippocampus[43][140], prefrontal cortex[12] Hippocampus [42], nucleus accumbens[87]
BPSD Frontal[44], amygdala[80], hippocampus[43] Hippocampus[42], cerebrum[99]
5-HTR5 Cognition Hippocampus [139], prefrontal cortex[12], amygdala[12] Prefrontal cortex[12], amygdala[12], hypothalamus[12]
BPSD Unknown Hippocampus[12], prefrontal cortex[12]
5-HTR6 Cognition Hippocampus[139] Prefrontal cortex[48], temporal cortex[40]
BPSD Hippocampus[49], dorsal raphe nucleus[49] Neocortex[85]
5-HTR7 Cognition Hippocampus[59], thalamus[12], raphe nuclei[141], cerebral cortex[141] Hippocampus[12][60], raphe nuclei[141], cerebral cortex[141]
BPSD Hippocampus[80] Prefrontal cortex[12], hippocampus[12]