The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Play Fighting of Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1158-1168

  Bell, Heather C ^a   McCaffrey, David R ^a   Forgie, Margaret L ^b   Kolb, Bryan ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

frontal cortex; lesion; Long Evans rats; medial prefrontal cortex; play fighting; triple dissociation

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIGHTING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PLAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STERILIZATION, TUBAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 72249106248     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017617     Document Type: Article

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