Psychosocial predator-based animal model of PTSD produces physiological and behavioral sequelae and a traumatic memory four months following stress onset

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 147, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-192

  Zoladz, Phillip R ^a   Park, Collin R ^c,d   Fleshner, Monika ^b   Diamond, David M ^c,d,e  

^a OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Fear; Memory; PTSD; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL STRESS; STARTLE REFLEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CAT; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CATS; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, STARTLE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928679885     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.04.032     Document Type: Article

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