Contingency-based emotional resilience: Effort-based reward training and flexible coping lead to adaptive responses to uncertainty in male rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Lambert, Kelly G ^a   Hyer, Molly M ^a   Rzucidlo, Amanda A ^a   Bergeron, Timothy ^a   Landis, Timothy ^a   Bardi, Massimo ^a  

^a RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency training; Coping profiles; DHEA; Neuroplasticity markers; Prediction errors; Resilience; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; PRASTERONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENTATE GYRUS; EMOTIONALITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HABENULA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84899697707     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00124     Document Type: Article

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