Theta activity in neurons and networks of the amygdala related to long-term fear memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 874-880

  Pape, Hans Christian ^a   Narayanan, Rajeevan T ^b   Smid, Jan ^b   Stork, Oliver ^b   Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Oscillation; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CYCLIC AMP;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CYCLIC AMP; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 27644501111     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20120     Document Type: Article

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