Role of corticosterone in trace and delay conditioned fear-potentiated startle in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-299

  Burman, Michael A ^a   Hamilton, Kathryn L ^a   Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Fear potentiated startle; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Memory formation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METYRAPONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951625106     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018911     Document Type: Article

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