Dissociations among the anxiolytic effects of septal, hippocampal, and amygdaloid lesions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 653-658

  Treit, Dallas ^a   Menard, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030915382     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.653     Document Type: Article

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