Both high and low doses of cocaine derail normal maternal caregiving - lessons from the laboratory rat

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Morrell, Joan I ^a   Basso, Julia C ^a   Pereira, Mariana ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; GROOMING; HUMAN; LICKING; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PUERPERIUM;

EID: 84866775234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00030     Document Type: Note

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