Onset and offset of aversive events establish distinct memories requiring fear and reward networks

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 518-526

  Andreatta, Marta ^a   Fendt, Markus ^b   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a   Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Imobersteg, Stefan ^b   Yarali, Ayse ^c   Gerber, Bertram ^d,e   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; RATS; REWARD;

EID: 84869217637     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.026864.112     Document Type: Article

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