Delayed recall of fear extinction in rats with lesions of ventral medial prefrontal cortex

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 544-548

  Lebrón, Kelimer ^a   Milad, Mohammed R ^a,b   Quirk, Gregory J ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644281167     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.78604     Document Type: Article

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