Fear conditioning
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Pavlovian fear conditioning is a behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events. It is a form of learning in which an aversive stimulus is associated with a particular neutral
Fear conditioning apparatus for mice equipped with a sound, a foot shock and an activity sensor with photobeams to measure freezing. Environment context can be changed. This apparatus is also used for PTSD studies.
including medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
Behavioral epigenetics
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Behavioral epigenetics is the field of study examining the role of epigenetics in shaping animal and human behavior. It seeks to explain how nurture shapes nature, where nature refers to biological he
Monozygotic twins are identical twins. Twin studies help to reveal epigenetic differences related to various aspects of psychology.
The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis is involved in the human stress response.