Footshock stress but not contextual fear conditioning induces long-term enhancement of auditory-evoked potentials in the basolateral amygdala of the freely behaving rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 457-463

  Garcia, René ^a   Paquereau, Joël ^b   Vouimba, Rose Marie ^a   Jàffard, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Click evoked amygdalar field potential; Conditioned fear; Freezing; Painful stimulus

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLICK; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; STIMULATION; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031841679     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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