Sensitization of fear learning to mild unconditional stimuli in male and female rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-67

  Poulos, Andrew M ^a   Zhuravka, Irina ^b   Long, Virginia ^b   Gannam, Camille ^b   Fanselow, Michael ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Emotion; Fear conditioning; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Stress enhanced fear learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS; STRESS; STRESS ENHANCED FEAR LEARNING; UNCONDITIONAL STIMULUS; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84930362248     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000033     Document Type: Article

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