Pain pathways involved in fear conditioning measured with fear- potentiated startle: Lesion studies

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 420-430

  Shi, Changjun ^a,b   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Insular cortex; Nociception; Posterior intralaminar nuclei; Startle

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; INSULA; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032910401     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-01-00420.1999     Document Type: Article

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