Prefrontal control of the amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 7429-7437

  Likhtik, Ekaterina ^a   Pelletier, Joe Guillaume ^a   Paz, Rony ^a   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Infralimbic; Medial prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; INTERNEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23744441029     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2314-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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