Ventral hippocampal lesions affect anxiety but not spatial learning.
Rats with cytotoxic ventral hippocampal lesions which removed approximately 50% of the hippocampus (including dentate gyrus) starting from the temporal pole, displayed a reduction in freezing behaviour following the delivery of an unsignalled footshock in an operant chamber. This was more plausibly...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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