Why we think plasticity underlying pavlovian fear conditioning occurs in the basolateral amygdala

Neuron

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-232

  Fanselow, Michael S ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONDITIONING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG INFUSION; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FEAR; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033153226     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80775-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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