Lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex enhance social modulation of avoidance

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-314

  Masuda, Akira ^a   Aou, Shuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lesions; Medial prefrontal cortex; Rats; Social modulation of avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650417430     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.031     Document Type: Article

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