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.

Answer: D

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