Effects of neonatal amygdala lesions on fear learning, conditioned inhibition, and extinction in adult macaques

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 392-403

  Kazama, Andy M ^a   Heuer, Eric ^a,b   Davis, Michael ^a   Bachevalier, Jocelyne ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Post traumatic stress disorder; Rhesus monkey; Safety signal learning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ADULT ANIMAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONED INHIBITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; RHESUS MONKEY; SAFETY; SHAM PROCEDURE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; AGE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MALE;

EID: 84867264884     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028241     Document Type: Article

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