Role of the basolateral amygdala in memory consolidation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 985, Issue , 2003, Pages 273-293

  McIntyre, Christa K ^a,b   Power, Ann E ^a   Roozendaal, Benno ^a   McGaugh, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Epinephrine; Glucocorticoids; Long term memory; Memory modulation; Norepinephrine; Stress hormones

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENALIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; HORMONE RELEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037274216     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07088.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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