Fear extinction learning can be impaired or enhanced by modulation of the CRF system in the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 234-239

  Abiri, Dina ^a   Douglas, Christina E ^a   Calakos, Katina C ^a   Barbayannis, Georgia ^a   Roberts, Andrea ^a   Bauer, Elizabeth P ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Corticotropin releasing factor; Fear extinction; Fear learning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN LEVEL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR EXTINCTION LEARNING; IMMOBILITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECALL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY; MICROINJECTION; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84903647624     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.06.021     Document Type: Article

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