Sexual motivation and anxiety-like behaviors of male rats after exposure to a trauma followed by situational reminders

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-187

  Hawley, Wayne ^a   Grissom, Elin ^a   Keskitalo, Lisa ^b   Hastings, Tyler ^b   Dohanich, Gary ^a,b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Novelty suppressed feeding; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sexual behavior; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; EJACULATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; INJURY; LATENT PERIOD; LIBIDO; MALE; MEMORY; MOBILIZATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78649383003     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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