Effects of medial amygdala inactivation on a panic-related behavior

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 316-323

  Herdade, Karina Costa Paes ^a   de Andrade Strauss, Christiana Villela ^a   Júnior, Hélio Zangrossi ^a   de Barros Viana, Milena ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Escape; Fear; Generalized anxiety; Medial amygdala; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PANIC; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33746710370     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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