The contribution of the amygdala to conditioned thalamic arousal

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 11026-11034

  Cain, Mary Eileen ^a,b   Kapp, Bruce S ^a   Puryear, Corey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdaloid central nucleus; Dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus; Electrical stimulation; Extracellular single unit recording; Muscimol; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRAINING;

EID: 0037115115     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-24-11026.2002     Document Type: Article

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