Dorsal periaqueductal gray-amygdala pathway conveys both innate and learned fear responses in rats

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14795-14800

  Kim, Eun Joo ^a   Horovitz, Omer ^b,c   Pellman, Blake A ^a   Tan, Lancy Mimi ^a   Li, Qiuling ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^b,c   Kim, Jeansok J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fear circuitry; Learning and memory; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; FORAGING; FREEZING; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS; SUBICULUM; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND; UNCONDITIONAL RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84884367501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310845110     Document Type: Article

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