Amphetamine and extinction of cued fear

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-22

  Carmack, Stephanie A ^a   Wood, Suzanne C ^a   Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Classical conditioning; Freezing; Mice; Stimulants

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 70449535426     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.049     Document Type: Article

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