Importance of early environment in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder-like behaviors

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 129-137

  Imanaka, Akihiro ^a   Morinobu, Shigeru ^a   Toki, Shigeru ^a   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Contextual fear conditioning; Elevated plus maze test; Environmental enrichment (EE); Neonatal isolation (NI); Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOT PLATE TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SYMPTOM; WEANING; AGE; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750116888     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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