Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is required for fear extinction in a modified delay conditioning paradigm in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 189, Issue , 2011, Pages 258-268

  Tian, S ^a   Huang, F ^a   Gao, J ^a   Li, P ^a   Ouyang, X ^a   Zhou, S ^a   Deng, H ^a   Yan, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Fear extinction; Learning; Memory; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR EXTINCTION; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79960914028     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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