The basolateral amygdala complex is involved with, but is not necessary for, rapid acquisition of Pavlovian 'fear conditioning'

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3044-3050

  Cahill, Larry ^a   Vazdarjanova, Almira ^a   Setlow, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENERVATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0033817121     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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