Central and basolateral amygdala neurons crash the aversive conditioning party: Theoretical comment on Rorick-Kehn and Steinmetz (2005)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1406-1410

  Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Avoidance; Fear; Pavlovian conditioning; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 27744564194     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1406     Document Type: Review

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