Involvement of the parafascicular nucleus in the facilitative effect of intracranial self-stimulation on active avoidance in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 808, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 220-231

  Massanés Rotger, Ester ^a   Aldavert Vera, Laura ^a   Segura Torres, Pilar ^a   Martí Nicolovius, Margarita ^a   Morgado Bernal, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intracranial self stimulation; Lateral hypothalamus; Learning and retention; Memory consolidation process; Parafascicular nucleus; Two way active avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 0032547868     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00845-2     Document Type: Article

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