Gating of Fear in Prelimbic Cortex by Hippocampal and Amygdala Inputs

Neuron

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 804-812

  Sotres Bayon, Francisco ^a   Sierra Mercado, Demetrio ^a   Pardilla Delgado, Enmanuelle ^a   Quirk, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FOOD INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY GATING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84869843301     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.028     Document Type: Article

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