Long-range connectivity defines behavioral specificity of amygdala neurons

Neuron

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 428-437

  Senn, Verena ^a,b,c   Wolff, Steffen B E ^a,b   Herry, Cyril ^a,d   Grenier, François ^a   Ehrlich, Ingrid ^a,e   Gründemann, Jan ^a   Fadok, Jonathan P ^a   Müller, Christian ^a   Letzkus, Johannes J ^a,f   Lüthi, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELAPID VENOMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; OPTOGENETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RHODOPSIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892698652     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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