Living in a dangerous world: The shaping of behavioral profile by early environment and 5-HTT genotype

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages

  Heiming, Rebecca S ^a   Jansen, Friederike ^a   Lewejohann, Lars ^a   Kaiser, Sylvia ^a   Schmitt, Angelika ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Anxiety; Behavioral profile; Exploration; Gene environment interaction; Maternal effects; Mice; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952427750     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.026.2009     Document Type: Article

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