Vagus nerve stimulation enhances extinction of conditioned fear and modulates plasticity in the pathway from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to the Amygdala

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  PeñA, David Frausto ^a   Childs, Jessica E ^a   Willett, Shawn ^a   Vital, Analicia ^a   McIntyre, Christa K ^a   Kroener, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; In vivo; Local field potentials; LTD; LTP; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84907392572     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00327     Document Type: Article

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