Amygdala stimulation enhances the rat eyeblink reflex through a short-latency mechanism

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-59

  Canli, Turhan ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; SYNAPSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0030048005     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.51     Document Type: Article

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