Synaptic competition in the lateral amygdala and the stimulus specificity of conditioned fear: a biophysical modeling study

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2163-2182

  Kim, D ^a   Samarth, P ^a   Feng, F ^a   Pare, D ^b   Nair, Satish S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Competition; Hebbian learning; Memory; Specificity

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; INTERNEURON; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84964992851     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1037-4     Document Type: Article

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