Projections from the lateral part of the central amygdalar nucleus to the postulated fear conditioning circuit

Brain Research

Volumn 763, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-254

  Petrovich, G D ^a   Swanson, L W ^a  

^a Program in Neural   (United States)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid (GABA); Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis; Conditioned emotional response; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Long term modulation; Neuropeptide; Parabrachial nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ENKEPHALIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTENSIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0030878022     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01361-3     Document Type: Article

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