Topographic projections from the periamygdaloid cortex to select subregions of the lateral nucleus of the amygdala in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-170

  Savander, Vesa ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^b   Pitkänen, Asla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Anterograde tracer; Emotional memory; Olfaction; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030604663     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12750-6     Document Type: Article

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