New paper out!
Monday, March 9, 2020
Our new publication, made possible by Nilay Atesyakar, investigates the relationship between cognitive competence and behavioral despair. We revealed that rats with low cognitive competence as assessed by learning performance in the Y-Maze, but not in the radial arm maze (!), were significantly more vulnerable to behavioral despair. In contrast, rats with high cognitive competence were resilient to the negative effects of the forced swim test, irrespective of the spatial memory task used. These results point to a nonlinear relationship between spatial memory performance and behavioral despair, suggesting that different types of cognitive functioning may have differential effects on affective processes.
