Prefrontal inputs to the amygdala instruct fear extinction memory formation

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Bukalo, Olena ^a,b   Pinard, Courtney R ^a   Silverstein, Shana ^a,b   Brehm, Christina ^c   Hartley, Nolan D ^d   Whittle, Nigel ^c   Colacicco, Giovanni ^a   Busch, Erica ^a   Patel, Sachin ^d   Singewald, Nicolas ^c   Holmes, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-VIVO; MEMORY FORMATION; NEURAL CIRCUITS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMATA;

EID: 84949628022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500251     Document Type: Article

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