Effects of enrichment predominate over those of chronic stress on fear-related behavior in male rats

Stress

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 305-312

  Mitra, Rupshi ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Fear; Footshock; Memory; Spatial context; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WISTAR RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67651069615     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890802379955     Document Type: Article

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