Fear extinction deficits following acute stress associate with increased spine density and dendritic retraction in basolateral amygdala neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2611-2620

  Maroun, Mouna ^a   Ioannides, Pericles J ^b   Bergman, Krista L ^c   Kavushansky, Alexandra ^a   Holmes, Andrew ^d   Wellman, Cara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Dendritic spine; Emotional learning; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEAR; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84882600995     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12259     Document Type: Article

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