Sensory-specific associations stored in the lateral amygdala allow for selective alteration of fear memories

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 9538-9543

  Díaz Mataix, Lorenzo ^a   Dȩbiec, Jacek ^a,b   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a,c   Doyère, Valérie ^a,d,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Child Study Center ^*  (Poland)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; HABITUATION; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79959920562     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5808-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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