Active avoidance requires a serial basal amygdala to nucleus accumbens shell circuit

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3470-3477

  Ramirez, Franchesca ^a   Moscarello, Justin M ^a   Le Doux, Joseph E ^a,b   Sears, Robert M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aversive; Fear conditioning; Motivation; Negative reinforcement; Two way signaled active avoidance

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TWO-WAY ACTIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84923337943     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1331-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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