Analysis of behavioral constraints and the neuroanatomy of fear to the predator odor trimethylthiazoline: A model for animal phobias

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1267-1276

  Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a   Pagani, Jerome H ^a   Rolla, Katherine L G ^a   Davis, Cameron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Fear; Fear conditioning; Hypothalamus; Phobia; Predator odor; TMT; Trimethylthiazoline; Unconditioned fear

Indexed keywords

THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PHOBIA; PREDATOR ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ODORS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RATS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 50849109838     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.05.006     Document Type: Review

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