Multigenerational prenatal stress increases the coherence of brain signaling among cortico-striatal-limbic circuits in adult rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 289, Issue , 2015, Pages 270-278

  Skelin, I ^a   Needham, M A ^a   Molina, L M ^a   Metz, G A S ^a   Gruber, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherence; Decision making; Field potential; Prenatal stress; Reversal learning; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICO STRIATAL LIMBIC CIRCUIT; DENDRITIC SPINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIGENERATIONAL PRENATAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REACTION TIME; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BETA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 84921901819     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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