Controlling the elements: An optogenetic approach to understanding the neural circuits of fear

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1053-1060

  Johansen, Joshua P ^a,b   Wolff, Steffen B E ^c,d   Lüthi, Andreas ^c,d   Ledoux, Joseph E ^a,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; fear conditioning; learning and memory; neural circuits; neural plasticity; optogenetics

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; OPSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; CELL POPULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84861585421     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.10.023     Document Type: Review

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