Reciprocal changes in the firing probability of lateral and central medial amygdala neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 836-844

  Collins, Dawn R ^a   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Intercalated cell masses; Intra amygdaloid pathways; Lateral amygdala; Multisite recording

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEAR; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0033555807     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-02-00836.1999     Document Type: Article

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