MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging Detects Rapid Microstructural Changes in Amygdala and Hippocampus Following Fear Conditioning in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ding, Abby Y ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Zhou, Iris Y ^a   Ma, Samantha J ^a   Tong, Gehua ^a   McAlonan, Grainne M ^a,b   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEAR; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84873867425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051704     Document Type: Article

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