Prenatal Stress Alters the Development of Socioemotional Behavior and Amygdala Neuron Excitability in Rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2135-2145

  Ehrlich, David E ^a   Rainnie, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; INFANCY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOEMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION; AGE; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84937162145     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.55     Document Type: Article

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