The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis mediates inter-individual variations in anxiety and fear

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 10357-10361

  Duvarci, Sevil ^a   Bauer, Elizabeth P ^a   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 69049091955     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2119-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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