Chronic social stress: Changes in behavioral and physiological indices of emotion

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 307-321

  Blanchard, Robert J ^a,g   Hebert, Mark ^b   Sakai, Randall R ^c   McKittrick, Christina ^d   Henrie, Andy ^b   Yudko, Errol ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^e   Blanchard, D Caroline ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic mild stress; Corticosterone; Defense; Learned helplessness; Rat; Risk assessment; Social stress; Subordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032397126     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1998)24:4<307::aid-ab6>3.0.co;2-f     Document Type: Article

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