Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Activates a Common Pattern of Neurons in the Lateral Amygdala of Individual Brains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bergstrom, Hadley C ^a,b,d   McDonald, Craig G ^c   Johnson, Luke R ^a,b,d  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM)   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEAR; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; CYTOLOGY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

RATTUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MEMORY; NEURONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955500946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015698     Document Type: Article

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