Early adversity alters attention and locomotion in adult sprague-dawley rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 665-675

  Burton, Christie ^a   Lovic, Vedran ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotionality; Locomotion; Prenatal stress; Rat artificial rearing

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ATTENTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTHER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REARING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATTENTION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STARTLE REACTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745889666     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.665     Document Type: Article

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