Excitotoxic lesions of the medial amygdala attenuate olfactory fear-potentiated startle and conditioned freezing behavior

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 427-432

  Cousens, Graham A ^a   Kearns, Amanda ^a   Laterza, Francesco ^a   Tundidor, Jillian ^a  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Fear potentiated startle; Freezing behavior; Medial amygdala

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCLIMATIZATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; FREEZING; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84857787813     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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