The extended amygdala: Are the central nucleus of the amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis differentially involved in fear versus anxiety

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 877, Issue , 1999, Pages 281-291

  Davis, Michael ^a   Shi, Changjun ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ASSOCIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEAR; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 0032780713     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09273.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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