Two-way avoidance acquisition is negatively related to conditioned freezing and positively associated with startle reactions: A dissection of anxiety and fear in genetically heterogeneous rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-156

  Vicens Costa, Elia ^a   Martínez Membrives, Esther ^a   López Aumatell, Regina ^a   Guitart Masip, Marc ^a   Cañete, Toni ^a   Blázquez, Gloria ^a   Tobeña, Adolf ^a   Fernández Teruel, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned freezing; Fear; Genetically heterogeneous rats; Passive avoidance; Startle responses; Two way avoidance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CATALEPSY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR; GENETICS; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; TWO WAY AVOIDANCE ACQUISITION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; RATS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 79952769240     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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