Early Post-Stressor Intervention with High-Dose Corticosterone Attenuates Posttraumatic Stress Response in an Animal Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 708-717

  Cohen, Hagit ^a   Matar, Michael A ^a   Buskila, Dan ^b   Kaplan, Zeev ^a   Zohar, Joseph ^c  

^a MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal model; cortisol; early drug intervention; extreme behavioral response; memory consolidation; minimal behavioral response; post traumatic stress disorder; secondary prevention

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPOSURE; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CATS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52949115286     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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