The Amygdala Modulates Hippocampus-Dependent Context Memory Formation and Stores Cue-Shock Associations

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-62

  Huff, Nicole C ^a   Rudy, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANISOMYCIN; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANISOMYCIN; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 1242336890     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.1.53     Document Type: Article

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