Central amygdala activity during fear conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 289-294

  Duvarci, Sevil ^a   Popa, Daniela ^a   Paré, Denis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650859970     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4985-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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