Overtraining does not mitigate contextual fear conditioning deficits produced by neurotoxic lesions of the basolateral amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3088-3097

  Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Context; Freezing; NMDA; Overtraining; Pavlovian fear conditioning; Rats

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; FEAR; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OVEREXERTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032523167     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-08-03088.1998     Document Type: Article

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