Fear renewal preferentially activates ventral hippocampal neurons projecting to both amygdala and prefrontal cortex in rats

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jin, Jingji ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BASAL AMYGDALA; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; STIMULUS; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS;

EID: 84930667466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08388     Document Type: Article

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