Similar neural activity during fear and disgust in the rat basolateral amygdala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Shabel, Steven J ^a,b   Schairer, Will ^a   Donahue, Rachel J ^a   Powell, Victoria ^a   Janak, Patricia H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TIME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83355176461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027797     Document Type: Article

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