Article
Learning and extinction of a passive avoidance response in mice with high levels of predisposition to catalepsy.
Neuroscience and behavioral physiology - 1 Jun 2009
Dubrovina N I, Zinov'ev D R, Zinov'eva D V, Kulikov A V
Abstract excerpt
This report presents results obtained from comparative analysis of learning and the dynamics of extinction of a conditioned passive avoidance response in ASC mice, which were bred for a high level of predisposition to catalepsy, and in CBA and AKR mice. The following findings were obtained: 1) impairments to the extinction of the memory of fear represent an important symptom of depression in ASC mice; 2)...
Topics
- Animals
- Avoidance Learning
- Catalepsy
- Depression
- Extinction, Psychological
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Male
- Mice
- Species Specificity
