The effect of adverse rearing environments on persistent memories in young rats: Removing the brakes on infant fear memories

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Callaghan, B L ^a   Richardson, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

development; fear conditioning; infantile amnesia; maternal separation; memory; stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS; CHILD REARING; CONDITIONING STIMULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; RECALL; STIMULUS; ANIMAL; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84866063790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2012.65     Document Type: Article

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