Social partnering alters sleep in fear-conditioned Wistar rats.

Social support, when provided following a traumatic experience, is associated with a lower incidence of stress-related psychiatric disorders. Our hypothesis was that providing a social interaction period with a naive conspecific would improve sleep architecture in response to cued fear conditioning...

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Main Authors: Jamie K DaSilva, Eram Husain, Yanlin Lei, Graziella L Mann, Adrian R Morrison, Shanaz Tejani-Butt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5628911?pdf=render