Individual differences in novelty-seeking behavior in rats as a model for psychosocial stress-related mood disorders

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 296-305

  Duclot, Florian ^a   Hollis, Fiona ^a   Darcy, Michael J ^b   Kabbaj, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Fear memory; Individual differences; Novelty seeking; PTSD; Social defeat

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CATALEPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NOVELTY SEEKING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958819244     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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