The amygdala modulates prefrontal cortex activity relative to conditioned fear

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6759, 1999, Pages 294-296

  Garcia, René ^a   Vouimba, Rose Marie ^b   Baudry, Michel ^b   Thompson, Richard F ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033581958     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46286     Document Type: Article

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