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Definition of 'Avoidance Learning'

A response to a cue that is instrumental in avoiding a noxious experience.

Common names: Avoidance Learning; Avoidance Learnings; Learning, Avoidance; Learnings, Avoidance

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods.

12 Oct 2009 Animals eat rather than react to moderate pain. Here, we examined the behavioral, hedonic, and neural requirements for ingestion analgesia in ad libitum fed rats. Noxious heat-evoked withdrawals were similarly suppressed during self-initiated ... Read more...


Effects of Lorazepam and citalopram on human defensive reactions: ethopharmacological differentiation of fear and anxiety.

5 Oct 2009 Drugs that are clinically effective against generalized anxiety disorder preferentially alter rodent risk assessment behavior, whereas drugs that are clinically effective against panic disorder preferentially alter rodent flight behavior. The ... Read more...


Involvement of actin rearrangements within the amygdala and the dorsal hippocampus in aversive memories of drug withdrawal in acute morphine-dependent rats.

28 Sep 2009 Aversive memories of drug withdrawal can generate a motivational state leading to compulsive drug taking. Changes in synaptic plasticity may be involved in the formation of aversive memories. Dynamic rearrangement of the cytoskeletal actin, a major ... Read more...

 

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Technical information about 'Avoidance Learning'

Definition: A response to a cue that is instrumental in avoiding a noxious experience.

Descriptor UI: D001362

Alternative terms: Avoidance Learning; Avoidance Learnings; Learning, Avoidance; Learnings, Avoidance;

Related Mesh Headings: Escape Reaction;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.097;

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