Conditioned and unconditioned stimuli increase frontal cortical and hippocampal acetylcholine release: Effects of novelty, habituation, and fear

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3089-3096

  Acquas, Elio ^a   Wilson, Catriona ^a   Fibiger, Hans C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; arousal; attention; basal forebrain; cortex; hippocampus; microdialysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS;

EID: 0029937831     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-09-03089.1996     Document Type: Article

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