Forced exercise blocks learned helplessness in the cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 155-156

  Brown, Gary E ^a,b   Davis, Eric ^a   Johnson, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; PERIPLANETA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; PERIPLANETA; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033072471     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.1.155     Document Type: Article

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