Pharmacological discrimination of extinction and reconsolidation of contextual fear memory by a potentiator of AMPA receptors

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2574-2584

  Yamada, Daisuke ^a,b   Zushida, Ko ^a,b   Wada, Keiji ^a,b   Sekiguchi, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

D cycloserine; Exposure therapy; Fear memory; PEPA; Reconsolidation; extinction

Indexed keywords

4 [2 (PHENYLSULFONYLAMINO)ETHYLTHIO] 2,6 DIFLUOROPHENOXYACETAMIDE; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR AGONIST; CYCLOSERINE; PROPRANOLOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CYCLOSERINE; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PHENOXYACETATES; PROPRANOLOL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350075667     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2009.86     Document Type: Article

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