Both pre- and posttraining excitotoxic lesions of the basolateral amygdala abolish the expression of olfactory and contextual fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1092-1103

  Cousens, Graham ^b   Otto, Tim ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0031742850     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.5.1092     Document Type: Article

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