Effects of social instability stress in adolescence on long-term, not short-term, spatial memory performance

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 256, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-171

  Green, Matthew R ^a   McCormick, Cheryl M ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Hippocampus; Learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED ALTERNATION TASK; DIET RESTRICTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL STRESS; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883285829     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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