Partial disruption of fear conditioning in rats with unilateral amygdala damage: Correspondence with unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 991-997

  LaBar, Kevin S ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOSURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0029858443     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.991     Document Type: Article

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