The Effect of Social Support in a Rodent Model of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder developed from experience of or exposure to a traumatic event. In a rodent model of this disorder, we test whether social support, through co-housing, may be able to alleviate the long term anxiety normally displayed by animals after trauma....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uppalapati, Swetha
Other Authors: Fellous, Jean-Marc
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579058