Effects of stress and motivation on performing a spatial task

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 277-285

  Wood, Lauren S ^a   Desjardins, Julie K ^a   Fernald, Russell D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Fish; Motivation; Spatial learning; Stress

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONII; BDNF GENE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRF GENE; CRF R1 GENE; CRF R2 GENE; CRFBP GENE; EGR 1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREOPTIC AREA; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RNA, MESSENGER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952628030     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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