Reorganization of learning-associated prefrontal synaptic plasticity between the recall of recent and remote fear extinction memory

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 520-524

  Hugues, Sandrine ^a   Garcia, Rene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 34548351765     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.625407     Document Type: Article

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