Fear Conditioning and Synaptic Plasticity

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 207-212

  Levenson, J M ^a   Mangan, K P ^a   Mukhopadhyay, P S ^a   O'Riordan, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Hippocampus; Learning; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882859777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00831-7     Document Type: Chapter

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