Stress inoculation facilitates active avoidance learning of the semi-precocial rodent Octodon degus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-303

  Abraham, Andreas ^a,b   Gruss, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active avoidance learning; Degus; Juvenile adult; Male female; Shuttle box; Stress inoculation; Task motivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; INOCULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; WEANING; AGE; ANIMAL; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; OCTODON; RATS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953913317     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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