Post-weaning social isolation impairs observational fear conditioning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 142-149

  Yusufishaq, Shabana ^a   Rosenkranz, J Amiel ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Fear; Isolation rearing; Learning; Observational; Social

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOUND; WEANING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; OBSERVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872582484     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.12.050     Document Type: Article

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