The Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Modulates the Efficiency of Amygdala-Dependent Fear Learning

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 821-831

  Bissière, Stephanie ^a   Plachta, Nicolas ^b   Hoyer, Daniel ^a   McAllister, Kevin H ^a   Olpe, Hans Rudolf ^a   Grace, Anthony A ^c   Cryan, John F ^a,d  

^a Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; anterior cingulate cortex; fear acquisition; fear conditioning; medial prefrontal modulation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 41449112209     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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