l~ats avoided a distinctive environment in which they had previously received inescapable electric shocks; the amounts of passive avoidance were taken as indices of the levels of conditioned fear on repeated unpunished tests. Chlordiazepoxide, 7.5 and 15.0 mg/kg tended to reduce fear, but did not ac
The effects of yohimbine and amphetamine on fear expression and extinction in rats
โ Scribed by Devin Mueller; Lening A. Olivera-Figueroa; Daniel S. Pine; Gregory J. Quirk
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Volume
- 204
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3158
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