Effects of Ethanol on the Encoding, Consolidation, and Expression of Extinction Following Contextual Fear Conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1280-1292

  Lattal, K Matthew ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consolidation; fear; hippocampus; memory; reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ETHANOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149078874     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1280     Document Type: Article

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