CORT and Anxiety: We did find a positively correlation between the EPM-evaluated anxiety-like behavior and the CORT serum levels in all the groups, supporting that, in the C-CRD rats, which showed the highest concentration of CORT in the blood along with the highest anxiety levels, HPA axis activation was favored by an enhanced stimulatory CeA input to the PVN, allowing those animals to present a stress response.