Measuring Pavlovian fear with conditioned freezing and conditioned suppression reveals different roles for the basolateral amygdala

Brain Research

Volumn 1374, Issue , 2011, Pages 82-89

  McDannald, Michael A ^a   Galarce, Ezequiel M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Associative learning; Conditioned freezing; Conditioned suppression; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FOOD; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAVLOVIAN FEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

RATTUS;

EID: 79251602952     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.050     Document Type: Article

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