Adolescent social defeat decreases spatial working memory performance in adulthood

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Novick, Andrew M ^a   Miiller, Leah C ^a   Forster, Gina L ^a   Watt, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Dopamine; Prefrontal cortex; Social defeat; Spatial working memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MILK; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL STRESS; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; DOPAMINE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MESENCEPHALON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885524369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-9-39     Document Type: Article

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