Prefrontal-amygdala fear networks come into focus

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue OCTOBER, 2015, Pages

  Carvalho, Maithe Arruda ^a   Clem, Roger L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal amygdala; Central amygdala; Consolidation; Infralimbic; Intercalated; Optogenetics; Paraventricular thalamus; Prelimbic

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); FEAR; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; INTERCALATED CELL MASS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 84948764517     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00145     Document Type: Article

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