The neural pathway underlying social buffering of conditioned fear responses in male rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3429-3437

  Kiyokawa, Yasushi ^a   Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro ^b   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala lateralisation; Chemical lesion; Fear conditioning; Olfactory peduncle; Social buffering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BUFFERING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84869871245     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08257.x     Document Type: Article

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