Impulsivity and aggressive behavior in Roman high and low avoidance rats: Baseline differences and adolescent social stress induced changes

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1156-1160

  Coppens, Caroline M ^a   de Boer, Sietse F ^a   Steimer, Thierry ^b   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aggression; Extinction; Impulsivity; Operant behavior; Roman rats; Social defeat

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMPULSIVENESS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROMAN HIGH AVOIDANCE; ROMAN LOW AVOIDANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BULLYING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855772229     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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