Cholinergic blockade frees fear extinction from its contextual dependency

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 345-352

  Zelikowsky, Moriel ^a   Hast, Timothy A ^a   Bennett, Rebecca Z ^a   Merjanian, Michael ^a   Nocera, Nathaniel A ^a   Ponnusamy, Ravikumar ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; exposure therapy; extinction; fear conditioning; hippocampus; renewal; scopolamine

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEAR; FEAR EXTINCTION; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE;

EID: 84872844893     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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