Pathway-selective adjustment of prefrontal-amygdala transmission during fear encoding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 15601-15609

  Arruda Carvalho, Maithe ^a   Clem, Roger L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Channelrhodopsin; Fear; Memory; Prefrontal; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONALITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEAR; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMPA RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84911459195     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2664-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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