Early life programming of innate fear and fear learning in adult female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-57

  Stevenson, Carl W ^a   Meredith, John P ^a   Spicer, Clare H ^a   Mason, Rob ^a   Marsden, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognition; Early life stress; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Handling; Maternal separation; Open field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58549099464     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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