Effects of lesions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, lateral hypothalamus, or insular cortex on conditioned taste aversion and conditioned odor aversion

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1257-1267

  Roman, Christopher ^a   Nebieridze, Nino ^a,b   Sastre, Aristides ^a   Reilly, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Forebrain lesions; Gustatory aversions; Latent inhibition; Learning; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOREBRAIN; HYPODIPSIA; INSULA; LATENT INHIBITION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; TASTE AVERSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; TASTE;

EID: 33846111014     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.6.1257     Document Type: Article

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