Excision of visual cortex does not affect the facilitatory and inhibitory effects of a light flash prepulse on the acoustic startle reflex in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 114-119

  Bowen, G Peter ^a   Ison, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle reflex; Prepulse facilitation; Prepulse inhibition; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; EXCISION; FACILITATION; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STARTLE REACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 31444435806     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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