Table 1. CUS Schedule.
CUS schedule for experiment 1 | |||
Day −1 | Habituation to fear conditioning contexts | Day 9 | Warm swim |
Day 0 | Fear conditioning (all groups) | Day 10 | Social defeat |
Day 1 | Restraint | Day 11 | Cold stress (begin food restriction for AST) |
Day 2 | Shaking/crowding | Day 12 | Tail pinch |
Day 3 | Social defeat | Day 13 | Cold swim |
Day 4 | Warm swim | Day 14 | Cold stress |
Day 5 | Wet bedding | Day 15 | AST habituation |
Day 6 | Social defeat | Day 16 | AST training |
Day 7 | Shaking/crowding | Day 17 | Extinction training (extinction groups only) |
Day 8 | Cold stress | Day 18 | AST testing |
CUS schedule for experiments 2–5 | |||
Day −1 | Habituation to fear conditioning contexts | Day 9 | Warm swima |
Day 0 | Fear conditioning (extinction groups only) | Day 10 | Social defeat |
Day 1 | Restraint | Day 11 | Footshock (begin food restriction for AST) |
Day 2 | Shaking/crowding | Day 12 | Tail pinch |
Day 3 | Social defeat | Day 13 | Cold swima |
Day 4 | Warm swima | Day 14 | Cold stress |
Day 5 | Wet bedding | Day 15 | AST habituation |
Day 6 | Social defeat | Day 16 | AST training |
Day 7 | Shaking/crowding | Day 17 | Extinction training or tone control treatment |
Day 8 | Footshock | Day 18 | SPDB or AST testing |
Swim stress was replaced by other stressors in experiment 5 to avoid infection due to surgery.