Chronic stress and sex differences on the recall of fear conditioning and extinction

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-332

  Baran, Sarah E ^a,b   Armstrong, Charles E ^a   Niren, Danielle C ^a   Hanna, Jeffery J ^a   Conrad, Cheryl D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear conditioning; Prefrontal cortex; Sex difference; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOT; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 60749130489     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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