Artificially-reared female rats show reduced prepulse inhibition and deficits in the attentional set shifting task - Reversal of effects with maternal-like licking stimulation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 209-219

  Lovic, Vedran ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial rearing; Attention; Development; Maternal behavior; Prepulse inhibition; Rat; Reversal learning; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0347626241     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00206-7     Document Type: Article

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