Enhancement of auditory fear conditioning after housing in a complex environment is attenuated by prior treatment with amphetamine

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 553-556

  Briand, Lisa A ^a   Robinson, Terry E ^a,b   Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEAR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 28844441234     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.95905     Document Type: Article

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