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Dependence of adolescent novelty-seeking behavior on response phenotype and effects of apparatus scaling.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Aug 2008
Philpot Rex M, Wecker Lynn
Abstract excerpt
Adult rats have been phenotyped as high (HRs) or low (LRs) responders to novelty, the former associated with high-risk behaviors. Data indicating that adolescent rodents exhibit increased novelty-seeking relative to adults are equivocal, and phenotypic variations in adolescent novel stimulus reactivity are unknown. To determine whether novelty-seeking differs between adolescent and adult rats, reflecting...
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