Extinction after retrieval: Effects on the associative and nonassociative components of remote contextual fear memory

Learning and Memory

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 508-518

  Costanzi, Marco ^a,b   Cannas, Sara ^a,b   Saraulli, Daniele ^a,b   Rossi Arnaud, Clelia ^c   Cestari, Vincenzo ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION; MEMORY RETRIEVAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79960730914     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.2175811     Document Type: Article

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