Amygdala-hippocampal theta synchrony in learning, memory and disease

Insights into the Amygdala: Structure, Functions and Implications for Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-228

  Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a   Lesting, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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