The role of the amygdala and olfaction in unconditioned fear in developing rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 233-240

  Chen, Sean W C ^a   Shemyakin, Alexei ^a   Wiedenmayer, Christoph P ^a,b  

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

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c fos; Development; Freezing; Olfaction; Unconditioned fear

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; LOUDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SMELLING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL;

EID: 30644471304     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2890-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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