Post-training lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex interfere with subsequent performance of trace eyeblink conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 46, 2005, Pages 10740-10746

  Simon, Barbara ^a,b   Knuckley, Bryan ^a   Churchwell, John ^a   Powell, Donald A ^a,b,c  

^a WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Classical conditioning; Memory; Prelimbic cortex; Rabbits; Recall

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECALL;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27944507634     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3003-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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