Imaging learned fear circuitry in awake mice using fMRI

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2125-2134

  Harris, Anjanette P ^a   Lennen, Ross J ^a   Marshall, Ian ^a,b   Jansen, Maurits A ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^b   Brydges, Nichola M ^c   Duguid, Ian C ^a   Holmes, Megan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Awake mouse fMRI; Cued fear conditioning; Nucleus accumbens; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREATHING RATE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FOOT; MOTION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOOT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84941179431     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12939     Document Type: Article

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