Voluntary exercise does not ameliorate context memory and hyperarousal in a mouse model for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 403-409

  Cacciaglia, Raffaele ^a   Krause Utz, Annegret ^a   Vogt, Miriam A ^a   Schmahl, Christian ^a   Flor, Herta ^a   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute treatment; Anxiety; Behaviour; Fear conditioning; Post traumatic stress disorder PTSD

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EMOTIONALITY; EXERCISE; HYPERAROUSAL; JUMPING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RUNNING; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 84880782034     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2011.583270     Document Type: Article

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