Genes and mechanisms in the amygdala involved in the formation of fear memory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 985, Issue , 2003, Pages 92-105

  Pape, Hans Christian ^a   Stork, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional behavior; Fear memory; Genes; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENTATE GYRUS; FEAR; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0037276603     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07074.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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