Conditioned and unconditioned fear organized in the inferior colliculus are differentially sensitive to injections of muscimol into the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 625-631

  Macedo, Carlos Eduardo ^a   Martinez, Raquel Chacon Ruiz ^a   Brandão, Marcus Lira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned fear; Inferior colliculus; Unconditioned fear

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL; SEMICARBAZIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INJECTION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA AGONISTS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MUSCIMOL; RATS; SEMICARBAZIDES;

EID: 33745913966     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.625     Document Type: Article

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