Effects of Environmental Enrichment in Maternally Separated Rats: Age and Sex-Specific Outcomes

Maternal separation (MS) early in life is related to an increase in anxiety and depressive-like behaviors and neurobiological alterations mostly related to alterations in hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity. Environmental enrichment (EE) has been used to ameliorate the effects of MS...

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Main Authors: Raura Doreste-Mendez, Efraín J. Ríos-Ruiz, Leslie L. Rivera-López, Alfredo Gutierrez, Annelyn Torres-Reveron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00198/full