Preventing the return of fear using reconsolidation updating and methylene blue is differentially dependent on extinction learning

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Auchter, Allison M ^a   Shumake, Jason ^a   Gonzalez Lima, Francisco ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; DRUG EFFECT; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; METHYLENE BLUE; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 85017401894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep46071     Document Type: Article

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