Higher-order sensory cortex drives basolateral amygdala activity during the recall of remote, but not recently learned fearful memories

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1647-1659

  Cambiaghi, Marco ^a   Grosso, Anna ^a   Likhtik, Ekaterina ^b,c   Mazziotti, Raffaele ^d   Concina, Giulia ^a   Renna, Annamaria ^a   Sacco, Tiziana ^a   Gordon, Joshua A ^e   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^f National Institute of Neuroscience INN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Basolateral amygdala; Fear memory; Memory consolidation; Remote memory; Theta activity

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; THETA RHYTHM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX, STARTLE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84957812736     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2351-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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