Environmental enrichment protects against the effects of chronic stress on cognitive and morphological measures of hippocampal integrity - Hutchinson, Katie M.; McLaughlin, Katie J.; Wright, Ryan L.; Bryce Ortiz, J.; Anouti, Danya P.; Mika, Agnieszka; Diamond, David M.; Conrad, Cheryl D. (Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2012)
Keywords: Animals; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition - physiology; Corticosterone - blood; Dendrites - physiology; Environment; Environmental enrichment; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hippocampus; Hippocampus - physiopathology; Housing, Animal; Male; Maze Learning - physiology; Morphology; Neurobiology; Neurons - physiology; Neuropsychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Reference memory; Restraint, Physical; Spatial learning; Stress; Stress, Physiological - physiology; Stress, Psychological - physiopathology; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Working memory; Reference memory; Working memory; Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Spatial learning; Stress; Central nervous system; Cognition; Space perception; Stimulating environment; Encephalon; Chronic; Acquisition process; Morphology; Perceptive learning