Exposure to acute and chronic stress has significant effects on the basic mechanisms of
associative learning and memory. Stress can both impair and enhance associative learning …

Since the 1950s, researchers have examined how differences in the social and asocial
environment affect learning in rats, mice, and, more recently, a variety of other species …

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a serotonergic psychedelic compound receiving
increasing interest due to putative anxiolytic and antidepressant properties. However, the …

The sucrose preference test (SPT) measures the relative preference of sucrose over water to
assess hedonic behaviors in rodents. Yet, it remains uncertain to what extent the SPT …

Behavioral tests have three key elements:(1) a motivating factor (what motivates the animal
in the test);(2) an observable behavior (which behaviors we may expect the animal exhibits …

Several studies have consistently reported a detrimental effect of chronic stress on
recognition memory. However, the effects of acute stress on this cognitive ability have been …

Background: Despite its high prevalence in all psychiatric disorders and its widely
demonstrated clinical relevance as a marker of both clinical severity and poorer treatment …

Exposure to chronic stress contributes considerably to the development of cognitive
impairments in psychiatric disorders such as depression, generalized anxiety disorder …

Adolescence is a brain maturation developmental period during which remodeling and
changes in synaptic plasticity and neural connectivity take place in some brain regions …

Adverse early life events are a well-established risk factor for the precipitation of behavioral
disorders characterized by anomalies in the dopaminergic system, such as schizophrenia …