Ventral hippocampal lesions affect anxiety but not spatial learning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 197-213

  Bannerman, D M ^a   Grubb, M ^a   Deacon, R M J ^a   Yee, B K ^a   Feldon, J ^a   Rawlins, J N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Freezing; Hippocampus; Locomotor activity; Rat; Sensitisation; Spatial memory; Ventral

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037450127     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00268-1     Document Type: Article

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