Lesions of the Amygdala, but Not of the Cerebellum or Red Nucleus, Block Conditioned Fear as Measured With the Potentiated Startle Paradigm

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 11-22

  Hitchcock, Janice ^a,b   Davis, Michael ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; FEAR; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FEAR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RED NUCLEUS; STARTLE REACTION; STRYCHNINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0022654464     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.100.1.11     Document Type: Article

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