Normal conditioned inhibition and extinction of freezing and fear- potentiated startle following electrolytic lesions of medial prefrontal cortex in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 712-726

  Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^a   Falls, William A ^b   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYSIS; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030737758     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.4.712     Document Type: Article

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