Functional inactivation of the lateral and basal nuclei of the amygdala by muscimol infusion prevents fear conditioning to an explicit conditioned stimulus and to contextual stimuli

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 683-682

  Muller, Jeff ^a   Corodimas, Keith P ^b   Fridel, Zhanna ^c   LeDoux, Joseph E ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Philadelphia Coll Pharm and Sci   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOLLOW UP; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0030795996     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.4.683     Document Type: Article

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