Cognitive deficits in the rat chronic mild stress model for depression: Relation to anhedonic-like responses

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 136-141

  Henningsen, Kim ^a   Andreasen, Jesper T ^b   Bouzinova, Elena V ^a   Jayatissa, Magdalena N ^a   Jensen, Morten S ^c   Redrobe, John P ^b   Wiborg, Ove ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Contextual fear conditioning; Depression; Pain sensitivity; Passive avoidance; Spontaneous alternation behaviour; Working memory

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE;

EID: 58749090906     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.039     Document Type: Article

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