Neural ensemble dynamics underlying a long-term associative memory

Nature

Volumn 543, Issue 7647, 2017, Pages 670-675

  Grewe, Benjamin F ^a   Gründemann, Jan ^b   Kitch, Lacey J ^a   Lecoq, Jerome A ^a   Parker, Jones G ^a,c   Marshall, Jesse D ^a   Larkin, Margaret C ^a   Jercog, Pablo E ^a   Grenier, Francois ^b,e   Li, Jin Zhong ^a   Lüthi, Andreas ^b,d   Schnitzer, Mark J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM;

BIOACTIVITY; BRAIN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BASAL AMYGDALA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DOWN REGULATION; DYNAMICS; FEAR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

MUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS;

EID: 85018906560     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature21682     Document Type: Article

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