Learned Avoidance in the Male Syrian Hamster: Investigating the Outcome of a Glucocorticoid Antagonist on Reconsolidation

Erik Haugsnes; Alicia Askew

doi:10.5334/jeps.co

Learned Avoidance in the Male Syrian Hamster: Investigating the Outcome of a Glucocorticoid Antagonist on Reconsolidation

Journal of European Psychology Students

Volume 6 (2015): Issue 1

By: Erik Haugsnes and Alicia Askew

Open Access

|Feb 2015

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