Rats with ventral hippocampal damage are impaired at various forms of learning including conditioned inhibition, spatial navigation, and discriminative fear conditioning to similar contexts

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 351, Issue , 2018, Pages 138-151

  McDonald, Robert J ^a   Balog, R J ^a   Lee, Justin Q ^a   Stuart, Emily E ^a   Carrels, Brianna B ^a   Hong, Nancy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioned inhibition; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Inhibition; Learning; Memory; Place learning; Ventral hippocampus; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSAL LEARNING;

N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

EID: 85048713324     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.06.003     Document Type: Article

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