Impaired fear memories are correlated with subregion-specific deficits in hippocampal and amygdalar LTP

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-54

  Schimanski, Lesley A ^a   Nguyen, Peter V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 14044266351     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.38     Document Type: Article

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