Context-dependent encoding of fear and extinction memories in a large-scale network model of the basal amygdala

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Vlachos, Ioannis ^a   Herry, Cyril ^b,c   Lüthi, Andreas ^d   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NETWORK CODING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONDITIONED FEAR; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; ENCODINGS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; LARGE-SCALES; LEAKY INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURON; NETWORK MODELS; NEURAL MECHANISMS; NEURON NETWORKS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL AMYGDALA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RODENTIA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79953671906     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001104     Document Type: Article

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