Hebbian and neuromodulatory mechanisms interact to trigger associative memory formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 51, 2014, Pages E5584-E5592

  Johansen, Joshua P ^a,b,c   Diaz Mataix, Lorenzo ^c   Hamanaka, Hiroki ^a   Ozawa, Takaaki ^a   Ycu, Edgar ^a   Koivumaa, Jenny ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^a   Hou, Mian ^c   Deisseroth, Karl ^d,e   Boyden, Edward S ^f   LeDoux, Joseph E ^c,g  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associative learning; Hebbian plasticity; Instructive signals; Neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED STIMULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; HEBBIAN MECHANISM; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SHOCK; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84919884554     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421304111     Document Type: Article

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