Functional circuits and anatomical distribution of response properties in the primate amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 722-733

  Zhang, Wujie ^a   Schneider, David M ^a   Belova, Marina A ^a   Morrison, Sara E ^a,f   Paton, Joseph J ^a,g   Salzman, C Daniel ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c WM Keck Center on Brain Plasticity and Cognition   (United States)

^d Kavli Institute for Brain Science   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; CELL INTERACTION; CONDITIONING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EMOTIONS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SENSATION;

EID: 84872062763     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2970-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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