Are different parts of the extended amygdala involved in fear versus anxiety?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1239-1247

  Davis, Michael ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Conditioning; Startle

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEAR; LIGHT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 0032535291     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00288-1     Document Type: Review

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