Anxiogenic effects of high illumination levels assessed with the acoustic startle response in rats

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 461-471

  Walker, David L ^a   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Buspirone; Fear; Habituation; Sensitization; Startle

Indexed keywords

BUSPIRONE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; DIAZEPAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; BUSPIRONE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; LIGHTING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030771893     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00441-6     Document Type: Article

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