Active vs. reactive threat responding is associated with differential c-Fos expression in specific regions of amygdala and prefrontal cortex

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 446-452

  Martinez, Raquel C R ^a,b   Gupta, Nikita ^b   Lazaro Munoz, Gabriel ^b   Sears, Robert M ^b   Kim, Soojeong ^c   Moscarello, Justin M ^b   LeDoux, Joseph E ^b,c   Cain, Christopher K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84881108717     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.031047.113     Document Type: Article

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