Impaired extinction of fear conditioning after REM deprivation is magnified by rearing in an enriched environment

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-18

  Hunter, Amy Silvestri ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Rapid eye movement sleep; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEAR; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP PATTERN; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 84930178730     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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