The role of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in fear and extinction memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 133, Issue , 2016, Pages 39-52

  Knox, Dayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual conditioning; Extinction recall; Fear conditioning; Fear extinction; Inhibitory avoidance; Magnocellular; Nucleus basalis

Indexed keywords

BASAL FOREBRAIN; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EXTINCTION MEMORY; FEAR MEMORY; GENICULATE BODY; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS BASALIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; RECALL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BASAL FOREBRAIN; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 84973882639     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.06.001     Document Type: Review

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