Conditioning-Specific Reflex Modification of the Rabbit's Nictitating Membrane Response and Heart Rate: Behavioral Rules, Neural Substrates, and Potential Applications to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1191-1206

  Burhans, Lauren B ^a,b   Smith Bell, Carrie ^a,b   Schreurs, Bernard G ^a,b  

^a Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

classical conditioning; eyeblink; fear conditioning; heart rate; reflex modification

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AVERSION; BRADYCARDIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEART RATE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBIT; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HEART RATE; HUMANS; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 57049099218     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013599     Document Type: Review

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