An electrophysiological characterization of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons during differential pavlovian fear conditioning in the awake rabbit

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-179

  Guarraci, Fay A ^a   Kapp, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Extracellular single cell recordings; Pavlovian fear conditioning; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION; FEAR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LIDOCAINE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; RABBITS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0032914820     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00102-8     Document Type: Article

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