Optical activation of lateral amygdala pyramidal cells instructs associative fear learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12692-12697

  Johansen, Joshua P ^a   Hamanaka, Hiroki ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a,b   Behnia, Rudy ^a   Deisseroth, Karl ^c   Blair, Hugh T ^d   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelrhodopsin; Memory; Reinforcement; Teaching signal; Virus

Indexed keywords

SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955457039     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002418107     Document Type: Article

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