Rats with congenital learned helplessness respond less to sucrose but show no deficits in activity or learning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 217-221

  Vollmayr, Barbara ^a   Bachteler, Daniel ^b   Vengeliene, Valentina ^b   Gass, Peter ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^b   Henn, Fritz ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Department of Psychopharmacology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Animal model; Depression; Learned helplessness; Morris water maze; Open field; Operant behavior; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HELPLESSNESS; HYPERACTIVITY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECALL;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SUCROSE;

EID: 1642337214     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00259-6     Document Type: Article

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