Lesion of infralimbic cortex occludes stress effects on retrieval of extinction but not fear conditioning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 240-246

  Farrell, Mollee R ^a   Sayed, Javed A ^a   Underwood, Amanda R ^a   Wellman, Cara L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Conditioned fear; Extinction; Infralimbic cortex; Medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACILITATION; FEAR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOTSHOCK; HABITUATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RIGIDITY; TRAINING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77955588178     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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