Auditory fear conditioning increases CS-elicited spike firing in lateral amygdala neurons even after extensive overtraining

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 4047-4054

  Maren, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Electrophysiology; Freezing; Neuronal plasticity; Parallel recording; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OVEREXERTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SHOCK; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033769253     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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