Research Article

Exposure to Patterned Auditory Stimuli during Acute Stress Prevents Despair-Like Behavior in Adult Mice That Were Previously Housed in an Enriched Environment in Combination with Auditory Stimuli

Table 1

Presentation of the patterned auditory stimuli during housing of young male Balb/C mice.

WeekIncrease stimulation per week (minutes; min)Number of pieces applied in random order

First01 to 078
Second08 to 159
Third16 to 2110
Fourth22 to 3013
Fifth3048
Sixth3088

The week form Thursday including Saturdays and Sundays. There were three sessions each day during the dark phase. Duration of stimuli changes about one or two minutes from one session to another. We applied different works for each week. This difference corresponded to at least 80% of the works. All PAS works were accelerated 200% in tempo and frequency as is indicated in Materials and Methods.