Lesions of the amygdala do not affect the enhancement of the acoustic startle response by background noise

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1341-1346

  Schanbacher, Annette ^a   Koch, Michael ^a   Pilz, Peter K D ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Amygdala; Background noise; Footshock; Rat; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0343807002     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00242-9     Document Type: Article

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