The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is required for the expression of contextual but not auditory freezing in rats with basolateral amygdala lesions

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-205

  Zimmerman, Joshua M ^b   Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; NBQX; NMDA; Overtraining; Pavlovian fear conditioning; Rats

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 79951773862     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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