Impaired extinction retention in adolescent rats: Effects of d-cycloserine

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2134-2142

  McCallum, Jessica ^a   Kim, Jee Hyun ^a,b   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; extinction; learned fear; rats; relapse; spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEAR; IMPAIRED EXTINCTION RETENTION; LEARNING DISORDER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CYCLOSERINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77955716777     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.92     Document Type: Article

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