Social isolation improves the performance of rodents in a novel cognitive flexibility task
Abstract Background Social isolation, i.e., the deprivation of social contact, is a highly stressful circumstance that affects behavioral and functional brain development in social animals. Cognitive flexibility, one of the essential executive brain function that facilitates survival problem solving...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-019-0339-4 |