Behavioural consequences of two chronic psychosocial stress paradigms: Anxiety without depression

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 702-714

  Slattery, David A ^a   Uschold, Nicole ^a   Magoni, Mauro ^b   Bär, Julia ^a   Popoli, Maurizio ^b   Neumann, Inga D ^a   Reber, Stefan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; CSC; Depression; SDOC; Social avoidance; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL GLAND WEIGHT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC STRESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS WEIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHARIN PREFERENCE TEST; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84858449507     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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