Magnesium supplement enhances spatial-context pattern separation and prevents fear overgeneralization

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 255-263

  Abumaria, Nashat ^a   Luo, Lin ^a   Ahn, Matae ^a   Liu, Guosong ^a,b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual fear memory; Fear generalization; Magnesium; Pattern separation

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM LEVOTHREONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNESIUM BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN SEPARATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SUPPLEMENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DIVORCE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; THREONINE;

EID: 84880608753     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32836357c7     Document Type: Article

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