Disruption of contextual freezing, but not contextual blocking of fear- potentiated startle, after lesions of the dorsal hippocampus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-76

  McNish, Kenneth A ^a   Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^c   Davis, Michael ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0034012092     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.64     Document Type: Article

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