Evidence that limbic neural plasticity in the right hemisphere mediates partial kindling induced lasting increases in anxiety-like behavior: Effects of low frequency stimulation (quenching?) on long term potentiation of amygdala efferents and behavior following kindling

Brain Research

Volumn 839, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-152

  Adamec, Robert E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Amygdala; Anxiety; Cat; Defence; Depotentiation; Low frequency stimulation; LTP; Medial hypothalamus; Partial kindling; Periaqueductal gray; Quenching

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ZONA INCERTA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033592112     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01731-X     Document Type: Article

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