Prenatal Enriched Environment improves emotional and attentional reactivity to adulthood stress

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 185-190

  Cymerblit Sabba, Adi ^a,c   Lasri, Tsuriel ^c   Gruper, Michael ^c   Aga Mizrachi, Shlomit ^a,c   Zubedat, Salman ^a,c   Avital, Avi ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adulthood stress; Attention; Corticosterone; Enriched environment; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84872007787     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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