Long-term synaptic changes in two input pathways into the lateral nucleus of the amygdala underlie fear extinction

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 812-823

  Park, Junchol ^a   Choi, June Seek ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 75449084724     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1482910     Document Type: Article

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