Amygdala kindling-resistant (SLOW) or -prone (FAST) rat strains show differential fear responses

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1402-1413

  Mohapel, Paul ^a,b   McIntyre, Dan C ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; KINDLING; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SHOCK; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; GENOTYPE; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032438372     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1402     Document Type: Article

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