Prior cocaine exposure disrupts extinction of fear conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 416-421

  Burke, Kathryn A ^a   Franz, Theresa M ^a   Gugsa, Nishan ^b   Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEAR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746653358     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.216206     Document Type: Article

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