Hyperexcitability: Exaggerated fear-potentiated startle produced by partial amygdala kindling

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-50

  Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a,c   Hamerman, Eric ^a   Sitcoske, Martina ^a   Glowa, John R ^b   Schulkin, Jay ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030059678     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.43     Document Type: Article

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