Role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) in the expression of conditioned fear

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2006, Pages 538-541

  Meloni, Edward G ^a   Jackson, Alexandra ^a   Gerety, Lyle P ^a   Cohen, Bruce M ^a   Carlezon Jr , William A ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; BST; CREB; Fear potentiated startle; Muscimol; PTSD

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 33746428569     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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