Neural correlates of competing fear behaviors evoked by an innately aversive stimulus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3855-3868

  Mongeau, Raymond ^a   Miller, Gabriel A ^a   Chiang, Elizabeth ^a   Anderson, David J ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Amygdala; Anxiety; C56Bl6 mice; Caudate putamen; Cingulate cortex; Defense behaviors; Diagonal band; Flight behavior; Freezing behavior; Hypothalamus; Motor cortex; Pedunculopontine tegmentum; Retrosplenial cortex; Septum; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; GENE INDUCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEGMENTUM; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RNA, MESSENGER; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0038545294     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-09-03855.2003     Document Type: Article

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