Acceleration of visually cued conditioned fear through the auditory pathway

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 968-973

  Newton, Jessica R ^a   Ellsworth, Charlene ^a   Miyakawa, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c   Tonegawa, Susumu ^a,b,c   Sur, Mriganka ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Riken MIT Neuroscience Research Center   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DENERVATION; FEAR; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4344561507     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1306     Document Type: Article

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