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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
卷 114, 期 6, 页码 1119-1130出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037//0735-7044.114.6.1119
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In the rat, both the medial and lateral prefrontal cortices (PFC; mPFC and lPFC, respectively) have direct connections with limbic structures that are important in the expression of fear and anxiety. The present study investigated the behavioral effects of excitotoxic lesions of either the mPFC or the lPFC on conditioned and unconditioned fear paradigms. In both unconditioned fear paradigms (open field, elevated plus-maze), lesions of the mPFC decreased anxiety. In fear conditioning, lPFC lesions substantially increased freezing throughout the different phases of the experiment, whereas mPFC lesions increased freezing to contextual cues and showed reduced freezing to discrete cues. These results support the functional role of the PFC in mediating or modulating central stares of fear and anxiety and suggest a functional dissociation between the lPFC and mPFC in their role in fear and anxiety.
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