The effects of intra-amygdaloid infusions of a D2 dopamine receptor antagonist on Pavlovian fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 647-651

  Guarraci, Fay A ^a   Frohardt, Russell J ^b   Falls, William A ^b   Kapp, Bruce S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; ETICLOPRIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0033930499     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.3.647     Document Type: Article

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