Cerebellar and extracerebellar involvement in mouse eyeblink conditioning: The ACDC model

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2010, Pages

  Boele, Henk Jan ^a   Koekkoek, Sebastiaan K E ^a   De Zeeuw, Chris I ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACDC model; Amygdala; Cerebellum; Cued fear conditioning; Eyeblink conditioning; Mouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149251200     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.019.2009     Document Type: Article

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