Fear and Safety Engage Competing Patterns of Theta-Gamma Coupling in the Basolateral Amygdala

Neuron

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 919-933

  Stujenske, Joseph M ^a   Likhtik, Ekaterina ^b   Topiwala, Mihir A ^b,c   Gordon, Joshua A ^b,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM; ACTION POTENTIAL; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; OPEN FIELD TEST; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SAFETY; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SAFETY; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84907321098     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.07.026     Document Type: Article

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