Males show stronger contextual fear conditioning than females after context pre-exposure

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-90

  Barker, Jennifer M ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Context fear conditioning; Context learning; Estradiol; Fear conditioning; Gonadectomy; Hippocampus; Novelty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SESAME SEED OIL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; GONADECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASTRATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 71949105302     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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