Amphetamine injections into the nucleus accumbens affect neither acquisition/expression of conditioned fear nor baseline startle response

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 538-544

  Schwienbacher, Isabel ^a   Fendt, Markus ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Emotion; Learning; Memory; Rat; Reward

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; FEAR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VELOCITY;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 12944304652     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2160-2     Document Type: Article

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