Environmental enrichment and isolation rearing in the rat: Effects on locomotor behavior and startle response plasticity

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 864-873

  Varty, Geoffrey B ^a   Paulus, Martin P ^a   Braff, David L ^a   Geyer, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Development; Locomotion; Prepulse inhibition; Rat; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITUATION; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0034095275     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00269-3     Document Type: Article

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