Automated assessment of Pavlovian conditioned freezing and shock reactivity in mice using the VideoFreeze system

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2010, Pages

  Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^a,b   Wood, Suzanne C ^a   Shuman, Tristan ^a   Cai, Denise J ^a   LeDuc, Arthur D ^c   Zurn, Karl R ^c   Brooks Zurn, J ^c,d   Sage, Jennifer R ^a   Herrera, Gerald M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Catamount Research and Development Inc   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Classical conditioning; Fear; Hippocampus; Memory; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051974364     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00158     Document Type: Article

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