A rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder reproduces the hippocampal deficits seen in the human syndrome

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages

  Goswami, Sonal ^a   Samuel, Sherin ^a   Sierra, Olga R ^a   Cascardi, Michele ^a,b   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Elevated plus maze; Extinction; Open field; Post traumatic stress disorder; Predatory threat; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ALLOCENTRIC OBJECT PLACE RECOGNITION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGOCENTRIC OBJECT PLACE RECOGNITION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPERIMENTATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPAL DEFICIT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPEN FIELD TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATORY THREAT; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84864394577     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00026     Document Type: Article

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