[PDF][PDF] Short-term but not long-term exposure to an enriched environment reduces unconditioned fear responses but not conditioned fear responses

KMH Cavalcante - Sci. Electron. Arch, 2019 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
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Abstract. Environmental enrichment (EE) has been shown to produce beneficial effects in
animal models of a wide variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders. EE exhibits
antidepressant function; reduces anxiety, improves spatial learning and memory impairment.
EE can reduce sensitivity to loss of reward by reducing frustration-like emotional states and
facilitates the extinction of conditioned fear. However, some studies related to the emotional …

Short-term but not long-term exposure to an enriched environment facilitates the extinction of aversive memory

KMH Cavalcante, JMM Bispo, MF Souza… - Behavioural Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental enrichment (EE) has been used to investigate behavioral changes and
neuroplasticity in brain in normal and pathological conditions. Besides, the EE has been
used to understand the neurobehavioral systems involved in learning experiences, visual
inputs, defensive responses, social interactions and memory. However, the required
exposure duration to remove aversive memories remains lacking. Therefore, the purpose of
the present study was to investigate the time-course effect of EE exposure on the extinction …
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