Differential involvement of the central amygdala in appetitive versus aversive learning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 192-200

  Knapska, Ewelina ^a   Walasek, Grazyna ^a   Nikolaev, Evgeni ^a   Neuhäusser Wespy, Frieder ^b   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b   Kaczmarek, Leszek ^a   Werka, Tomasz ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHOCK;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33645531379     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.54706     Document Type: Article

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