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Effects of prenatal undernutrition on emotional reactivity and cognitive flexibility in adult sheep
  The experiment reported was designed to test two hypotheses: that prenatal undernutrition (a) increases emotional reactivity and (b) impairs cognitive flexibility in sheep. The mothers of one group were fed live weight maintenance requirements throughout pregnancy (control, C) while those of another group were fed 50% of that amount from days 1 to 95 of pregnancy and 100% from then onwards (prenatal undernutrition, PU). At 18 months of age, {PU} sheep were more active during restraint (P

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    08 October 2003

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1016/j.bbr.2003.08.003

  • Cross Ref:

    S0166432803002882

  • ISSN:

    0166-4328

  • Library of Congress:

    QR Microbiology

Citation

Erhard, H. W., Boissy, A., Rae, M. T., & Rhind, S. M. (2004). Effects of prenatal undernutrition on emotional reactivity and cognitive flexibility in adult sheep. Behavioural Brain Research, 151(1-2), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2003.08.003

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Keywords

Sheep; Prenatal undernutrition; Fear; Emotional reactivity; Temperament; Cognitive flexibility; Laterality; Personality

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