A circuit mechanism for differentiating positive and negative associations

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7549, 2015, Pages 675-678

  Namburi, Praneeth ^a   Beyeler, Anna ^a   Yorozu, Suzuko ^b   Calhoon, Gwendolyn G ^a   Halbert, Sarah A ^a,c   Wichmann, Romy ^a   Holden, Stephanie S ^a   Mertens, Kim L ^a,d   Anahtar, Melodi ^a   Felix Ortiz, Ada C ^a   Wickersham, Ian R ^e   Gray, Jesse M ^b   Tye, Kay M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INHIBITION; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CELL POPULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SYNAPSE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTIVATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928814366     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14366     Document Type: Article

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