Amygdala Inactivation Blocks Expression of Conditioned Memory Modulation and the Promotion of Avoidance and Freezing

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-35

  Holahan, Matthew R ^a,b   White, Norman M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED MEMORY MODULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FOOD PREFERENCE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CUES; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 1242269331     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.1.24     Document Type: Article

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