Amygdala signaling during foraging in a hazardous environment

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 12994-13005

  Amir, Alon ^a   Lee, Seung Chan ^a   Headley, Drew B ^a   Herzallah, Mohammad M ^a   Pare, Denis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Approach; Defensive behaviors; Reward; Threat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FIRING RATE; FORAGING; HABITUATION; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VELOCITY; ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84942163296     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0407-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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