The effects of environmental enrichment in the chick anxiety-depression model

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 276-281

  Kim, Eun Ha ^a   Sufka, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Anxiety; Depression; Early experience; Endophenotypes; Enrichment; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOMESTIC FOWL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHICKENS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79954630284     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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