Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6640, 1997, Pages 377-380

  Killcross, Simon ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030795741     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41097     Document Type: Article

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