The amygdala and emotional modulation of competition between cognitive and habit memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-131

  Wingard, Jeffrey C ^b   Packard, Mark G ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Basal Ganglia; Emotion; Hippocampus; Memory; Place learning; Response learning; RS 79948; Striatum

Indexed keywords

12 ETHYLSULFONYL 5,8,8A,9,10,11,12,12A,13,13A DECAHYDRO 3 METHOXY 6H ISOQUINO[2,1 G][1,6]NAPHTHYRIDINE; TRAXANOX;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; ESCAPE REACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; NAPHTHYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47849104729     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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