Sensitive periods in fear learning and memory

Stress

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-21

  King, Elizabeth C ^a   Pattwell, Siobhan S ^a   Glatt, Charles E ^a   Lee, Francis S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Amygdala; Anxiety; Critical period plasticity; GABA; Hippocampus; Interneuron; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA;

EID: 84890930767     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2013.796355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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