Different forms of decision-making involve changes in the synaptic strength of the thalamic, hippocampal, and amygdalar afferents to the medial prefrontal cortex

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  López Ramos, Juan Carlos ^a   Guerra Narbona, Rafael ^a   Deigado García, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Basolateral amygdala; Decision making; Field postsynaptic potentials; Hippocampus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mediodorsalthalamus; Mice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 84922227667     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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