What Kind of Brain Alteration Will Cause the Fear Response

question 81

Multiple Choice

What kind of brain alteration will cause the fear response of freezing to discontinue in rats?

• A) Using a split-brain operation to cut the corpus callosum.
• B) Lesioning the anterior and posterior hippocampal body.
• C) Ablating the medulla oblongata.
• D) Severing the connections from the amygdala to the mid-brain.

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