The amygdala and appraisal processes: Stimulus and response complexity as an organizing factor

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 179-186

  Yaniv, Dan ^a,c   Desmedt, Aline ^b,d   Jaffard, Robert ^b   Richter Levin, Gal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioning; Emotion; Fear; Lidocaine; LTP; Memory; Neural basis of behavior; Neural plasticity; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMY; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FEAR; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 1442299202     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2003.08.008     Document Type: Review

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