Evidence of contextual fear after lesions of the hippocampus: A disruption of freezing but not fear-potentiated startle

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 9353-9360

  McNish, Kenneth A ^a   Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^a   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioning; Context; Fear; Freezing; Hippocampus; Learning; Memo ry; Startle

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0030710176     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-23-09353.1997     Document Type: Article

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