Age and adolescent social stress effects on fear extinction in female rats

Stress

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 678-688

  McCormick, C M ^a   Mongillo, D L ^a   Simone, J J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; associative learning; chronic stress; development; fear conditioning; fear extinction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOT; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MEMORY; RATS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885616933     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2013.840283     Document Type: Article

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