Early life manipulations alter learning and memory in rats

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1985-2006

  Kosten, Therese A ^a   Kim, Jeansok J ^b   Lee, Hongjoo J ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Development; Early life stress; Hippocampus; Maternal separation; Neonatal handling; Neonatal isolation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ACTIVE AVOIDANCE; ADULTHOOD; AVERSION; CAN TEST; CIRCULAR MAZE; CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION; CONDITIONING; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; FEAR CONDITIONING; FEAR POTENTIATED STARTLE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INHIBITORY AVOIDANCE; INHIBITORY LEARNING; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARM MAZE; RAT; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; T MAZE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING; Y MAZE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865553085     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.07.003     Document Type: Review

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