Increased affective ultrasonic communication during fear learning in adult male rats exposed to maternal immune activation

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1199-1205

  Yee, Nicole ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^b   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a,c   Wöhr, Markus ^b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

22 kHz; Anxiety; Fear conditioning; Neurodevelopmental disorder; Poly I:C; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84864386984     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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