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

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

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 …

Environmental enrichment (EE) housing paradigms have long been shown beneficial for
brain function involving neural growth and activity, learning and memory capacity, and for …

Psychiatric disorders entail maladaptive processes impairing individuals' ability to
appropriately interface with environment. Among them, depression is characterized by …

Current antidepressant treatments remain limited by poor efficacy and a slow onset of action.
Increasing evidence demonstrates that enriched environment (EE) treatment can promote …

Chronic stress drives behavioral and physiological changes associated with numerous
psychiatric disease states. In rodents, the vast majority of chronic stress models involve …

Exposure to stressful events can be differently perceived by individuals and can have
persistent sequelae depending on the level of stress resilience or vulnerability of each …

During the last decades, schizophrenia has been regarded as a developmental disorder.
The neurodevelopmental hypothesis proposes schizophrenia to be related to genetic and …