Chronic stress leaves novelty-seeking behavior intact while impairing spatial recognition memory in the Y-maze

Stress

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-154

  Wright, Ryan L ^a   Conrad, Cheryl D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Novelty seeking; Object recognition; Restraint stress; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEOPHOBIA; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 22144436260     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890500156663     Document Type: Article

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