Dual circuitry for odor-shock conditioning during infancy: Corticosterone switches between fear and attraction via amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6737-6748

  Moriceau, Stephanie ^a   Wilson, Donald A ^a   Levine, Seymour ^b   Sullivan, Regina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attachment; Corticosterone; Fear conditioning; Infant rat; Learning; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Piriform cortex; Sensitive period; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; STEROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID RECEPTOR; DEOXYGLUCOSE; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; MIFEPRISTONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SHOCK;

ADRENALECTOMY; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEOXYGLUCOSE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MIFEPRISTONE; NERVE NET; ODORS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SHOCK;

EID: 33745789060     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0499-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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