Emotional reactivity and cognitive performance in aversively motivated tasks: A comparison between four rat strains

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  van der Staay, F Josef ^a,b,d   Schuurman, Teun ^b   van Reenen, Cornelis G ^b   Korte, S Mechiel ^a,c,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2A ANTAGONIST; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FISCHER 344 RAT; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REFERENCE MEMORY; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; STANDARD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURNOVER TIME; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

EID: 78650218952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-5-50     Document Type: Article

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