Phenotypic responses to social defeat are associated with differences in cued and contextual fear discrimination

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-122

  Dulka, Brooke N ^a   Lynch, Joseph F ^a   Latsko, Maeson S ^a   Mulvany, Jessica L ^a   Jasnow, Aaron M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotional learning; Fear generalization; Social stress

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CONSPECIFIC; HOMINID; LEARNING; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SOCIAL STRESS; STIMULUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; C57BL MOUSE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84936773210     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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