Aged rats are hypo-responsive to acute restraint: implications for psychosocial stress in aging

Aged rats are hypo-responsive to acute restraint: implications for psychosocial stress in aging

Cognitive processes associated with prefrontal cortex and hippocampus decline with age and are vulnerable to disruption by stress. The stress/ stress hormone/ allostatic load hypotheses of brain aging posit that brain aging, at least in part, is the manifestation of life-long stress exposure. In add...

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Main Authors: Heather M Buechel, Jelena ePopovic, Kendra H. Staggs, Katie L. Anderson, Olivier eThibault, Eric eBlalock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Subjects:
Aging
Cognition
Hippocampus
Sleep Stages
bioinformatics
psychosocial stress
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00013/full

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