Ibotenic acid lesions of the basolateral, but not the central, amygdala interfere with conditioned taste aversion: Evidence from a combined behavioral and anatomical tract-tracing investigation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 291-302

  Morris, Renée ^a,b   Frey, Stephen ^a   Kasambira, Tafadzwa ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYSIS; INSULA; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; IBOTENIC ACID; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TASTE;

EID: 0032896667     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.2.291     Document Type: Article

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