Exposure to a fearful context during periods of memory plasticity impairs extinction via hyperactivation of frontal-amygdalar circuits

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 156-163

  Stafford, James M ^a   Maughan, Dee Anna K ^a   Ilioi, Elena C ^a   Lattal, K Matthew ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FRONTAL LOBE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS;

EID: 84875203532     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.029801.112     Document Type: Article

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