Active behavioral coping alters the behavioral but not the endocrine response to stress

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1941-1948

  Helmreich, Dana L ^a   Tylee, Daniel ^a   Christianson, John P ^b   Kubala, Kenneth H ^b   Govindarajan, Sindhuja T ^c   O'Neill, William E ^a   Becoats, Kyeesha ^a   Watkins, Linda ^b   Maier, Steve F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Chewing; Coping; Corticosterone; Open field test; Rat; Social exploration; Thyroxine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ANXIETY LIKE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HORMONE RELEASE; INESCAPABLE TAIL SHOCK; INJURY; MALE; MASTICATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASTICATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THYROXINE;

EID: 84869890241     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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