Posttraining lesions of the auditory thalamus, but not cortex, disrupt the inhibition of fear conditioned to an auditory stimulus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 765-779

  Heldt, Scott A ^a,c   Falls, William A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned inhibition; Fear potentiated startle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE PROJECTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAFETY; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS;

EID: 33644945262     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04604.x     Document Type: Article

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