Affective conditioning in the basolateral amygdala of anesthetized rats is modulated by dopamine and prefrontal cortical inputs

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 985, Issue , 2003, Pages 488-491

  Rosenkranz, J Amiel ^a   Grace, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Dopamine; in vivo; Intracellular electrophysiology; Lateral amygdala; Pavlovian conditioning; Plasticity; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037276792     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07107.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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