Coping styles and behavioural flexibility: Towards underlying mechanisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 4021-4028

  Coppens, Caroline M ^a   De Boer, Sietse F ^a   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioural flexibility; Coping; Dopamine; Prefrontal cortex; Proximate mechanism; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BRAIN; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650593997     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0217     Document Type: Review

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