Establishing aversive, but not safe, taste memories requires lateralized pontine-cortical connections

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 356-363

  Clark, Emily Wilkins ^a   Bernstein, Ilene L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Crossed disconnection; Electrolytic; Immunoreactivity; Learning and memory; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; PONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE;

EID: 58149359029     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.09.030     Document Type: Article

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