Enhanced prepulse inhibition of startle using salient prepulses in rats

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-14

  Röskam, Stephan ^a   Koch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Attention; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33646014477     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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