Enduring deficits in contextual and auditory fear conditioning after adolescent, not adult, social instability stress in male rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-56

  Morrissey, Mark D ^a   Mathews, Iva Z ^a   McCormick, Cheryl M ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Chronic stress; Development; Fear conditioning; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STRESS; WEIGHT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78651241845     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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