Heightened fear in response to a safety cue and extinguished fear cue in a rat model of maternal immune activation

Maternal immune activation during pregnancy is an environmental risk factor for psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia and autism in the offspring. Hence, changes in an array of behaviors, including behavioral flexibility, consistent with altered functioning of cortico-limbic circuits have been...

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Main Authors: Susan eSangha, Quentin eGreba, Paul D Robinson, Stephanie A Ballendine, John George Howland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00168/full