Long-term potentiation as a substrate for memory: Evidence from studies of amygdaloid plasticity and pavlovian fear conditioning

Hippocampus

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 592-599

  Goosens, Ki A ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala freezing; Associative learning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 0036433355     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10099     Document Type: Article

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