Directional Theta Coherence in Prefrontal Cortical to Amygdalo-Hippocampal Pathways Signals Fear Extinction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lesting, Jörg ^a   Daldrup, Thiemo ^a   Narayanan, Venu ^a   Himpe, Christian ^a   Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84886261911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077707     Document Type: Article

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