Environmental enrichment (EE) is an experimental animal model that enhances an animal's
opportunity to interact with sensory, motor, and social stimuli, compared to standard …

Previous studies showed that acute restraint stress or transient elevation of glucocorticoid
(GC) stress hormones produces emergent changes in both anxiety behavior and dendritic …

Stress exposure can produce profound changes in physiology and behavior that can impair
health and well-being. Of note, stress exposure is linked to anxiety disorders and depression …

Environmental enrichment (EE) has beneficial neurobiological, physiological and behavioral
effects. The purpose of the present paper is to review the animal research literature …

Environmental enrichment (EE) produces a remarkable degree of structural and functional
plasticity in the hippocampus and possible mediators of these changes, such as …

Because stress may underlie the presence of depressive episodes, strategies to produce
protection against or to reverse the effects of stress on neuroplasticity and behavior are …

Moderate levels of anxiety enable individual animals to cope with stressors through
avoidance, and could be an adaptive trait. However, repeated stress exacerbates anxiety to …

Exposure to an enriched environment (EE) has been shown to induce cortical plasticity.
Considerable amount of research is focused on the effects of EE in the hippocampus; …

The reactivity of physiological systems and behavior to psychological stress is reduced with
increasing familiarity with a repeated stressor. This reduced reactivity, termed habituation, is …

Environmental enrichment (EE) is known to have an anxiolytic effect in several animal
models; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying these behavioral changes are not …