Learned helplessness and social avoidance in the Wistar-Kyoto rat

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Nam, Hyungwoo ^a,b   Clinton, Sarah M ^a   Jackson, Nateka L ^a   Kerman, Ilan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Elevated plus maze; Forced swim test; Heart; Maternal separation; Social interaction; Spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR); Wistar Kyoto (WKY)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EXPERIENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORCED SWIM TEST; HELPLESSNESS; IMMOBILITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RAT; RAT MODEL; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST;

EID: 84897458782     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00109     Document Type: Article

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