Escapable stress modulates retention of spatial learning in rats: Preliminary evidence for involvement of neurosteroids

Psychobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 110-117

  Healy, Denis J ^a   Drugan, Robert C ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029920261     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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