Hebbian reverberations in emotional memory micro circuits

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages 198-205

  Johnson, Luke R ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^b   Doyère, Valérie ^c  

^a USU   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Ensembles; Fear; Network; Recurrent

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955497797     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.027.2009     Document Type: Review

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