A behavioral analysis of the impact of voluntary physical activity on hippocampus-dependent contextual conditioning

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 988-1001

  Greenwood, Benjamin N ^a   Strong, Paul V ^a   Foley, Teresa E ^a   Fleshner, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Extinction; Generalization; Wheel running

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREADMILL;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; RUNNING; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 70349462981     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20534     Document Type: Article

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