The role of an amygdalo-nigrostriatal pathway in associative learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3913-3919

  Han, Jung Soo ^a   McMahan, Robert W ^a   Holland, Peter ^b   Gallagher, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; asymmetrical lesion; conditioned orienting behavior; ibotenic acid; learning and memory; lidocaine 6 OHDA; pavlovian conditioning; striatum

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; OXIDOPAMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030920752     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03913.1997     Document Type: Article

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