The effect of escapable versus inescapable social defeat on conditioned defeat and social recognition in Syrian hamsters

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 493-497

  McCann, Katharine E ^a   Huhman, Kim L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Controllability; Defensive behavior; Social stress

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HAMSTER; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRESS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CRICETINAE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; ESCAPE REACTION; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053505448     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Agid O., Kohn Y., Lerer B. Environmental stress and psychiatric illness. Biomed Pharmacother 2000, 54:135-141.
2. Huhman K.L. Social conflict models: can they inform us about human psychopathology?. Horm Behav 2006, 50:640-646.
3. Kelleher I., Harley M., Lynch F., Arseneault L., Fitzpatrick C., Cannon M. Associations between childhood trauma, bullying and psychotic symptoms among a school-based adolescent sample. Br J Psychiatry 2008, 193:378-382.
4. Berton O., Durand M., Aguerre S., Mormede P., Chaouloff F. Behavioral, neuroendocrine and serotonergic consequences of single social defeat and repeated fluoxetine pretreatment in the Lewis rat strain. Neuroscience 1999, 92:327-341.
5. Meerlo P., Sgoifo A., Turek F.W. The effects of social defeat and other stressors on the expression of circadian rhythms. Stress 2002, 5:15-22.
6. Huhman K.L., Moore T.O., Mougey E.H., Meyerhoff J.L. Hormonal responses to fighting in hamsters: separation of physical and psychological causes. Physiol Behav 1992, 51:1083-1086.
7. Potegal M., Huhman K., Moore T., Meyerhoff J. Conditioned defeat in the Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Behav Neural Biol 1993, 60:93-102.
8. Huhman K.L., Solomon M.B., Janicki M., Harmon A.C., Lin S.M., Israel J.E., et al. Conditioned defeat in male and female Syrian hamsters. Horm Behav 2003, 44:293-299.
9. Berton O., McClung C.A., Dileone R.J., Krishnan V., Renthal W., Russo S.J., et al. Essential role of BDNF in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in social defeat stress. Science 2006, 311:864-868.
10. Blanchard R.J., McKittrick C.R., Blanchard D.C. Animal models of social stress: effects on behavior and brain neurochemical systems. Physiol Behav 2001, 73:261-271.
11. Markham C.M., Huhman K.L. Is the medial amygdala part of the neural circuit modulating conditioned defeat in Syrian hamsters?. Learn Mem 2008, 15:6-12.
12. Blanchard D.C., Spencer R.L., Weiss S.M., Blanchard R.J., McEwen B., Sakai R.R. Visible burrow system as a model of chronic social stress: behavioral and neuroendocrine correlates. Psychoneuroendocrinology 1995, 20:117-134.
13. Lai W.S., Ramiro L.L., Yu H.A., Johnston R.E. Recognition of familiar individuals in golden hamsters: a new method and functional neuroanatomy. J Neurosci 2005, 25:11239-11247.
14. Landau I.T. Light-dark rhythms in aggressive behavior of the male golden hamster. Physiol Behav 1975, 14:767-774.
15. Lai W.S., Chen A., Johnston R.E. Patterns of neural activation associated with exposure to odors from a familiar winner in male golden hamsters. Horm Behav 2004, 46:319-329.
16. Jackson R.L., Maier S.F., Coon D.J. Long-term analgesic effects of inescapable shock and learned helplessness. Science 1979, 206:91-93.
17. Will M.J., Watkins L.R., Maier S.F. Uncontrollable stress potentiates morphine's rewarding properties. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1998, 60:655-664.
18. Amat J., Paul E., Zarza C., Watkins L.R., Maier S.F. Previous experience with behavioral control over stress blocks the behavioral and dorsal raphe nucleus activating effects of later uncontrollable stress: role of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci 2006, 26:13264-13272.
19. Rozeske R.R., Der-Avakian A., Bland S.T., Beckley J.T., Watkins L.R., Maier S.F. The medial prefrontal cortex regulates the differential expression of morphine-conditioned place preference following a single exposure to controllable or uncontrollable stress. Neuropsychopharmacology 2009, 34:834-843.
20. Amat J., Aleksejev R.M., Paul E., Watkins L.R., Maier S.F. Behavioral control over shock blocks behavioral and neurochemical effects of later social defeat. Neuroscience 2010, 165:1031-1038.
21. Taylor P.J., Gooding P., Wood A.M., Tarrier N. The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide. Psychol Bull 2011, 137:391-420.
22. Ehlers A., Maercker A., Boos A. Posttraumatic stress disorder following political imprisonment: the role of mental defeat, alienation and perceived permanent change. J Abnorm Psychol 2000, 109:45-55.
23. Ehlers A., Clark D.M. A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Behav Res Ther 2000, 38:319-345.
24. Petrulis A., Weidner M., Johnston R.E. Recognition of competitors by male golden hamsters. Physiol Behav 2004, 81:629-638.