Organization of projections to the lateral amygdala from auditory and visual areas of the thalamus in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 412, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 383-409

  Doron, Neot N ^a   Ledoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Dorsal medial geniculate nucleus; Fear; Lateral posterior nucleus; Pinna movements; Posterior intralaminar nucleus

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL LABELING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERMINOLOGY; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033610226     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990927)412:3<383::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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