Lesions of the central gray block conditioned fear as measured with the potentiated startle paradigm

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 127-134

  Fendt, Markus ^a   Koch, Michael ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Amygdala; Anxiety; Caudal pontine reticular nucleus; Central gray; Conditioned fear; Fear; Periaqueductal gray; Rat; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0030021695     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(96)82984-6     Document Type: Article

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