Rats Freezing to a Tone (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

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Laboratory rats listening to a tone (indicated by light on bottom right) that had been paired with shock. Control rats froze with fear but rats injected with brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were not afraid, continuing to press a bar for food.

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Dr. Gregory Quirk, Univ. Puerto Rico

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