Activation of limbic system structures by replay of ultrasonic vocalization in rats

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue C, 2010, Pages 113-124

  Wöhr, Markus ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

alarm call; amygdala; c Fos; contact call; nucleus accumbens; periaqueductal gray; rat; social communication; ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023039233     PISSN: 15697339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374593-4.00012-7     Document Type: Chapter

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