Both medial prefrontal and amygdala central nucleus lesions abolish heart rate classical conditioning, but only prefrontal lesions impair reversal of eyeblink differential conditioning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 151-154

  Chachich, Mark ^a,b   Powell, D A ^a,b,c  

^a WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala central nucleus; Anterior cingulate cortex; Autonomic conditioning; Classical conditioning; Prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYELID REFLEX; HEART RATE; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HEART RATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS;

EID: 0032484176     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00832-5     Document Type: Article

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