Intermittent physical stress during early- and mid-adolescence differentially alters rats' anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in adulthood

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 344-360

  Wilkin, Meaghan M ^a   Waters, Pattti ^b   McCormick, Cheryl M ^b   Menard, Janet L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models of anxiety; Animal models of depression; Corticosterone; Early adolescence; Early life adversity; Mid adolescence; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RISK-TAKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864301285     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027258     Document Type: Article

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