Repeated ethanol exposure and withdrawal impairs human fear conditioning and depresses long-term potentiation in rat amygdala and hippocampus

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 392-400

  Stephens, David N ^a   Ripley, Tamzin L ^a   Borlikova, Gilyana ^a   Schubert, Manja ^b   Albrecht, Doris ^b   Hogarth, Lee ^a   Duka, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binge drinking; Fear conditioning; Plasticity; Repeated withdrawal; Stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHANOL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RATS; STARTLE REACTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24044530052     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.025     Document Type: Article

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