The Role of GABA and Anxiety in the Reconsolidation of Conditioned Fear

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1295-1305

  Zhang, Shirley ^a   Cranney, Jacquelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; fear; midazolam; reconsolidation; single prolonged stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; MIDAZOLAM;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BICUCULLINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDAZOLAM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57049151363     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013273     Document Type: Article

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