Stress triggers anhedonia in rats bred for learned helplessness

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 183-186

  Enkel, Thomas ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^a   Vollmayr, Barbara ^a   Schneider, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Depression; Learned helplessness; Pleasure attenuated startle; Reward; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REWARD; STARTLE REFLEX; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FOOD PREFERENCES; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; RATS; REWARD; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77249094458     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.01.042     Document Type: Article

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