Exercise Enhances the Behavioral Responses to Acute Stress in an Animal Model of PTSD

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2043-2052

  Hoffman, Jay R ^a   Ostfeld, Ishay ^b   Kaplan, Zeev ^c   Zohar, Joseph ^d,e   Cohen, Hagit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

BDNF; DOR; NPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAINING

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; REFLEX, STARTLE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84941792257     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000642     Document Type: Article

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