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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Jan 20;70(5):441–448. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.11.029

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Traumatic experience with reminders of stress (TERS)-susceptible mice exhibit elevation of acoustic startle response (ASR) that persists for up to 2 months after the shock. After undergoing exposure to the TERS protocol, TERS-susceptible mice (black bars, n = 25) show a significantly higher ASR than control mice (white bars, n = 30) during posttest 1, almost 1 month following the shock. The TERS-resilient mice (gray bars, n = 13) did not differ from control mice. An additional startle test was performed at 2 months postshock to determine if the startle effect persisted over time. The TERS-susceptible mice showed a higher ASR than control mice during posttest 2 (2 months after the shock), whereas TERS-resilient mice did not differ from control mice. ***p < .001; *p < .05.