Functional specificity in the modulation of novelty exposure effects by reliability of maternal care

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 345-350

  Reeb Sutherland, Bethany C ^a,c   Tang, Akaysha C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Early experience; Emotionality; Maternal care; Maternal mediation; Maternal modulation; Morris water task; Neonatal handling; Neonatal novelty exposure; Open field; Post natal handling; Social recognition memory; Watermaze

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HUMAN; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL CARE; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80054837961     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.047     Document Type: Article

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