Posttraining lesions of the amygdala interfere with fear-potentiated startle to both visual and auditory conditioned stimuli in C57BL/6J mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 749-759

  Heldt, Scott ^a   Sundin, Victoria ^a   Willott, James F ^a   Falls, William A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033842979     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.4.749     Document Type: Article

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