Basomedial amygdala mediates top-down control of anxiety and fear

Nature

Volumn 527, Issue 7577, 2015, Pages 179-185

  Adhikari, Avishek ^a,b   Lerner, Talia N ^a,b   Finkelstein, Joel ^a   Pak, Sally ^a   Jennings, Joshua H ^a,b   Davidson, Thomas J ^a,b   Ferenczi, Emily ^a,b   Gunaydin, Lisa A ^a,b   Mirzabekov, Julie J ^a   Ye, Li ^a,b   Kim, Sung Yon ^a,b   Lei, Anna ^a   Deisseroth, Karl ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; COGNITION; DISEASE TREATMENT; NEUROLOGY; RODENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOMEDIAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CATALEPSY; CYTOLOGY; LEARNING; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

MUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84946917210     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15698     Document Type: Article

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