Long-term potentiation in freely moving rats reveals asymmetries in thalamic and cortical inputs to the lateral amygdala

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2703-2715

  Doyère, Valérie ^a,b   Schafe, Glenn E ^a   Sigurdsson, Torfi ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Awake evoked potentials; In vivo; Medial geniculate

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038684196     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02707.x     Document Type: Article

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