Chronic stress during adolescence impairs and improves learning and memory in adulthood

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Chaby, Lauren E ^a,b   Cavigelli, Sonia A ^a,b   Hirrlinger, Amy M ^a   Lim, James ^a   Warg, Kendall M ^a   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Chronicunpredictablestress; Laboratoryrat; Learning; Memory; Rattusnorvegicus; Reversallearning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FUNCTION TEST; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREDATION RISK; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84957568193     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00327     Document Type: Article

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