Amygdala central nucleus lesions attenuate acoustic startle stimulus-evoked heart rate changes in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 228-237

  Young, Brian J ^a,b   Leaton, Robert N ^a  

^a Dartmouth College

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; FEAR; HEART RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0029961799     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.2.228     Document Type: Article

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