Peritraumatic startle response predicts the vulnerability to develop PTSD-like behaviors in rats: A model for peritraumatic dissociation

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Dong, Xinwen ^a   Li, Yonghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Peritraumatic dissociation; Post traumatic stress disorder; Rat models; Startle; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STARTLE RESPONSE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; PERITRAUMATIC DISSOCIATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 84893163901     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00014     Document Type: Article

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