Amygdaloid kindling is anxiogenic but fails to alter object recognition or spatial working memory in rats

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-61

  Hannesson, D K ^a   Pollock, M S ^b   Howland, J G ^c   Mohapel, P ^d   Wallace, A E ^c   Corcoran, M E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Epilepsy; Exploration; Hippocampus; Object memory; Perirhinal cortex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 46549087758     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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