Effects of acute restraint stress on set-shifting and reversal learning in male rats

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 164-173

  Thai, Chester A ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Howland, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Corticosterone; Executive functions; Glucocorticoid receptor; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

HORMONE ANTAGONIST; MIFEPRISTONE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPIRONOLACTONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84873853820     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0124-8     Document Type: Article

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