Dopamine Transmission in the Amygdala Modulates Surprise in an Aversive Blocking Paradigm

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 780-788

  Iordanova, Mihaela D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Error correction; Fear; Flupenthixol; Rats

Indexed keywords

FLUPENTIXOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; FEAR; FLUPENTHIXOL; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650085752     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021111     Document Type: Article

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