Amygdala-mediated enhancement of memory for specific events depends on the hippocampus

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-41

  Bass, David I ^a   Nizam, Zainab G ^a   Partain, Kristin N ^a   Wang, Arick ^a   Manns, Joseph R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Electrical stimulation; Fluorophore conjugated muscimol; Hippocampus; Memory enhancement; Object recognition memory

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY ENHANCEMENT; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RAT; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FLUOROPHORE-CONJUGATED MUSCIMOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY ENHANCEMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84888237964     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.10.020     Document Type: Article

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