EFFECT OF MIDBRAIN RAPHE LESION ON AVOIDANCE-LEARNING IN AGGRESSIVE MICE
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 11 (5) , 575-582
Abstract
Lesion of the midbrain ventral raphe nucleus greatly improves the avoidance learning efficiency of normal and isolated-aggressive albino Swiss mice. Since the lesion of this brain area selectively lowers the forebrain concentration of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), implications of the role of brain 5-HT in avoidance learning acquisition are discussed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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