Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat

Caldji, Christian; Tannenbaum, Beth; Sharma, Shakti; Francis, Darlene; M. Plotsky, Paul; J. Meaney, Michael

doi:10.1073/pnas.95.9.5335

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Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Apr 28, 1998

Authors:

Christian Caldji

Beth Tannenbaum

Shakti Sharma

Abstract

The mothers of infant rats show individual differences in the frequency of licking/grooming and arched-back nursing (LG-ABN) of pups that contribute to the development of individual differences in behavioral responses to stress. As adults, the offspring of mothers that exhibited high levels of LG-AB...

Subject

Locus Ceruleus

Offspring

Anxiogenic

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