Chronic stress alters neural activity in medial prefrontal cortex during retrieval of extinction

Neuroscience

Volumn 174, Issue , 2011, Pages 115-131

  Wilber, A A ^a   Walker, A G ^a   Southwood, C J ^a   Farrell, M R ^a   Lin, G L ^a   Rebec, G V ^a   Wellman, C L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction retrieval; Extracellular recording; Infralimbic cortex; Medial prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; HABITUATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78650960677     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.10.070     Document Type: Article

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