Lesions of the basolateral amygdala reverse the long-lasting interference with shuttle box escape produced by uncontrollable stress

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-76

  Greenwood, Benjamin N ^a   Strong, Paul V ^a   Fleshner, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned fear; Depression; Freezing; Inescapable shock; Learned helplessness; Stress

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEAR; FREEZING; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952320580     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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