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Science 5 October 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4414, pp. 91 - 93
DOI: 10.1126/science.573496
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Science, Vol 206, Issue 4414, 91-93
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Long-term analgesic effects of inescapable shock and learned helplessness

RL Jackson, SF Maier, and DJ Coon

Although exposure to inescapable shocks induced analgesia in rats, the analgesia was not manifest 24 hours later. A brief reexposure to shock, however, restored the analgesia. This reexposure to shock had an analgesic effect only if the rats had been shocked 24 hours previously. Further, long-term analgesic effects depended on the controllability of the original shocks and not on shock exposure per se. Implications of these results for learned helplessness and stress-induced analgesia are discussed.


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