Noradrenergic activation of the basolateral amygdala modulates the consolidation of object-in-context recognition memory

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Barsegyan, Areg ^a,b,c,d   McGaugh, James L ^d   Roozendaal, Benno ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional arousal; Episodic like memory; Hippocampus; Norepinephrine; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OBJECT IN CONTEXT RECOGNITION MEMORY; OBJECT RELATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84900396102     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00160     Document Type: Article

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