Sign-tracking to an appetitive cue predicts incubation of conditioned fear in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 276, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-66

  Morrow, Jonathan D ^a,b   Saunders, Benjamin T ^b,c   Maren, Stephen ^b,d   Robinson, Terry E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Autoshaping; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Individual differences; Post traumatic stress disorder; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADDICTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMOTIONALITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEAR; GOAL TRACKER BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPERANT BEHAVIORAL TEST; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGN TRACKER BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REWARD;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; FEAR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REWARD;

EID: 84908563246     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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