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Development Of Ethologically-Based Inhibitory Avoidance Models Of Fear Memory, Savannah Dalrymple
Development Of Ethologically-Based Inhibitory Avoidance Models Of Fear Memory, Savannah Dalrymple
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Translational research provides a unique opportunity to investigate innate and conditioned fear to develop an integrated understanding of anxiety disorders, ultimately improving treatment for those afflicted. Many fear conditioning paradigms use physically aversive stimuli to induce fear but ethological stimuli may better represent psychological disorders from a translational standpoint. Natural predators and immobilization have been successful in inducing both innate and contextually conditioned fear in rodents but an inhibitory avoidance paradigm that uses ethologically relevant stimuli has yet to be developed. To expand the use of these stimuli into inhibitory avoidance conditioning, an inhibitory avoidance paradigm was developed to include …