Cholinergic Signaling Controls Conditioned Fear Behaviors and Enhances Plasticity of Cortical-Amygdala Circuits

Neuron

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1057-1070

  Jiang, Li ^a,b   Kundu, Srikanya ^a,b   Lederman, James D ^a,b   López Hernández, Gretchen Y ^a,b   Ballinger, Elizabeth C ^a,b   Wang, Shaohua ^a,b   Talmage, David A ^a,b   Role, Lorna W ^a,b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONDITIONED FEAR BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEAR; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84964931430     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.028     Document Type: Article

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