Hemodynamic responses in amygdala and hippocampus distinguish between aversive and neutral cues during Pavlovian fear conditioning in behaving rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 498-507

  Mchugh, Stephen B ^a   Marques Smith, Andre ^a   Li, Jennifer ^b   Rawlins, J N P ^a   Lowry, John ^c   Conway, Michael ^b   Gilmour, Gary ^b   Tricklebank, Mark ^b   Bannerman, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Extinction; Fear; functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Tissue oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMPEROMETRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BOLD SIGNAL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOOTSHOCK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PAVLOVIAN FEAR CONDITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84873301659     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12057     Document Type: Article

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