Circadian rhythmicity and behavioral depression: I. Effects of stress
| Autor: | Alan M. Rosenwasser, Karen T. Stewart, Herbert Hauser, Norman T. Adler, Joseph R. Volpicelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Activity level
Male medicine.medical_specialty Period (gene) Activity rhythms Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Motor Activity Handling Psychological Behavioral Neuroscience Helplessness Learned Escape Reaction Internal medicine medicine Animals Circadian rhythm Behavioral adaptation Depression (differential diagnoses) Electroshock Motivation Circadian Rhythm Rats Affect Endocrinology Shock (circulatory) medicine.symptom Psychology Arousal |
| Zdroj: | Physiologybehavior. 48(1) |
| ISSN: | 0031-9384 |
| Popis: | Rats were exposed to repeated sessions of inescapable footshock, and behavioral depression was subsequently assessed by measuring escape performance during exposure to escapable shock in a different testing environment. Free-running circadian activity rhythms were assessed using running wheels for approximately three weeks before and after administration of inescapable shock. Several animals showed lengthening of free-running period and decreases in activity level following shock. Similar effects were also seen in rats that were removed from their running wheels, placed within the shock apparatus, and not given shock, but not in nonhandled control animals. Furthermore, period lengthening in shocked and handled rats was positively correlated with escape performance, suggesting that circadian rhythm alterations occurred in those animals that were best able to cope with shock or handling-related stressors. In contrast, individual differences in circadian period and activity level during baseline conditions were not predictive of either escape performance or circadian rhythm alterations. These results suggest that successful behavioral adaptation to stress may be associated with alterations of circadian rhythmicity. |
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