Evidence for the persistence of contextual fear memories following immediate extinction

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1303-1311

  Archbold, Georgina E B ^a   Bouton, Mark E ^b   Nader, Karim ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Dorsal hippocampus; Extinction; Memory erasure; N methyl D aspartate

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TIME FACTORS; VALINE;

EID: 77950432044     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07161.x     Document Type: Article

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