Amygdalar NMDA receptors are critical for the expression of multiple conditioned fear responses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 4116-4124

  Lee, Hongjoo J ^a   Choi, June Seek ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b   Kim, Jeansok J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Fear conditioning; Learning; LTP; Memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEAR; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035371024     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-11-04116.2001     Document Type: Article

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