The Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Is Critically Involved in Enhancing Associative Learning After Stressful Experience.

Exposure to an acute stressful event enhances trace eyeblink conditioning in male rats, even when rats begin training days after the stressor (Shors, 2001). The authors examined whether the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), an area involved in stress and anxiety, is critically involved in...

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Published in:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 119; no. 6; pp. 1459 - 1467
Main Authors:	Bangasser, Debra A., Santollo, Jessica, Shors, Tracey J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association December 2005
Subjects:	Psychology of learning Association of ideas Laboratory rats Brain function localization
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