Enhanced fear recall and emotional arousal in rats recovering from chronic variable stress

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 474-482

  McGuire, Jennifer ^a   Herman, James P ^a   Horn, Paul S ^b   Sallee, Floyd R ^a   Sah, Renu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arousal; Chronic variable stress; Fear memory; HPA; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957239865     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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