Chronic stress impairs prefrontal cortex-dependent response inhibition and spatial working memory

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 605-619

  Mika, Agnieszka ^a   Mazur, Gabriel J ^a   Hoffman, Ann N ^a   Talboom, Joshua S ^a   Bimonte Nelson, Heather A ^a   Sanabria, Federico ^a   Conrad, Cheryl D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Fixed minimum interval; Impulsivity; Prefrontal cortex; Radial arm water maze; Rat; Reference memory; Response inhibition; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE INHIBITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; EXERCISE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874979561     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029642     Document Type: Article

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