Acute early-life stress results in premature emergence of adult-like fear retention and extinction relapse in infant rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 703-711

  Cowan, Caitlin S M ^a   Callaghan, Bridget L ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Infantile amnesia; Maternal deprivation

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEAR; INFANTILE AMNESIA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887507226     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034118     Document Type: Article

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