Ensemble coding in amygdala circuits for associative learning

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-206

  Gründemann, Jan ^a   Lüthi, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INTERNEURON; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PARVALBUMIN EXPRESSING INTERNEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSTATIN EXPRESSING INTERNEURON; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; ANIMAL; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; FEAR; HUMANS; NEURONS;

EID: 84945284237     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.10.005     Document Type: Review

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