Positive and negative ultrasonic social signals elicit opposing firing patterns in rat amygdala

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-86

  Parsana, Ashwini J ^a   Li, Nanxin ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Freezing; Single unit recording; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; IMMOBILIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80053172185     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.040     Document Type: Article

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