Time determines the neural circuit underlying associative fear learning

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Guimarãis, Marta ^a   Gregório, Ana ^a   Cruz, Andreia ^a   Guyon, Nicolas ^a   Moita, Marta A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Hippocampus; mPFC; Muscimol; Single trial; Trace fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875493516     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00089     Document Type: Article

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