The roles of the actin cytoskeleton in fear memory formation

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Lamprecht, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Amygdala; Fear memory; Hippocampus; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; PROFILIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CYTOSKELETON; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84855222932     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00039     Document Type: Article

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