Deep brain stimulation of the amygdala alleviates fear conditioning-induced alterations in synaptic plasticity in the cortical-amygdala pathway and fear memory

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 773-782

  Sui, Li ^a   Huang, SiJia ^a   Peng, BinBin ^a   Ren, Jie ^a   Tian, FuYing ^a   Wang, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Deep brain stimulation; Fear conditioning; Fear memory; Post traumatic stress disorder; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEAR; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; MEMORY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84903310009     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-014-1183-5     Document Type: Article

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