Impaired trace and contextual fear conditioning in aged rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 612-624

  Moyer Jr , James R ^a,c   Brown, Thomas H ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Context; Context conditioning; Freezing; Trace fear conditioning; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33745883312     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.612     Document Type: Article

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