Intra-amygdala muscimol injections impair freezing and place avoidance in aversive contextual conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-446

  Holahan, Matthew R ^a,b   White, Norman M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREEZING; MALE; MEMORY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); GABA AGONISTS; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 4043164374     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.64704     Document Type: Article

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