Destruction of the auditory thalamus disrupts the production of fear but not the inhibition of fear conditioned to an auditory stimulus

Brain Research

Volumn 813, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 274-282

  Heldt, Scott A ^a   A Falls, William ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned inhibition; Fear; Medial geniculate; Startle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEAR; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032495159     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01047-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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