Distinct mechanisms mediate the reinstatement and spontaneous recovery of extinguished fear in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 510, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-37

  Ma, Xiang ^a   Ma, Yin Yan ^a   Yu, Long Chuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory fear; Contextual fear; Dichotomous control; Extinction; Summation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXTREMITIES; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84862786054     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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