Role of the Basolateral Amygdala in the Storage of Fear Memories across the Adult Lifetime of Rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3810-3815

  Gale, Greg D ^a   Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^b,c   Godsil, Bill P ^a   Mitchell, Shawn ^a   Nozawa, Takashi ^a   Sage, Jennifer R ^a,c   Wiltgen, Brian ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Learning; Memory; NMDA; Retrograde; Shock

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOLLOW UP; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0842322452     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4100-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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