Role of the primate amygdala in fear-potentiated startle: Effects of chronic lesions in the rhesus monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 7386-7396

  Antoniadis, Elena A ^a,b   Winslow, James T ^d   Davis, Michael ^e,f   Amaral, David G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional learning; Fear conditioning; Fear potentiated startle; Learning and memory; Primate; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 34447520346     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5643-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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