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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Psychol. 2012;63:129–151. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.121208.131631

Table 1.

Effects of infralimbic cortex manipulations on memory for fear extinction

Method Task Ext. memory Reference
Facilitators
CB1 receptor agonist cued fc enhanced Lin et al., 2009
BDNF cued fc enhanced Peters et al., 2010
M-type K(+) channel blocker cued fc enhanced Santini & Porter, 2010
GABAa antagonist picrotoxin cued fc enhanced Thompson et al., 2010
microstimulation cued fc enhanced Kim et al., 2010
GABAa antagonist picrotoxin cued fc enhanced Chang & Maren, 2011
histone acetyltransferase cued fc enhanced Marek et al., 2011
Inhibitors
CB1 receptor antagonist cued fc impaired Lin et al., 2009
inactivation with muscimol context fc impaired Laurent & Westbrook, 2009
D2 antagonist raclopride cued fc impaired Mueller et al., 2010
mGluR5 antagonist MPEP cued fc impaired Fontanez-Nuin et al., 2011
inactivation with muscimol cued fc impaired Sierra-Mercado et al., 2011