Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala
@article{Killcross1997DifferentTO, title={Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala}, author={Simon Killcross and Trevor William Robbins and Barry J. Everitt}, journal={Nature}, year={1997}, volume={388}, pages={377-380} }
The amygdala has long been thought to be involved in emotional behaviour, and its role in anxiety and conditioned fear has been highlighted. Individual amygdaloid nuclei have been shown to project to various cortical and subcortical regions implicated in affective processing. Here we show that some of these nuclei have separate roles in distinct mechanisms underlying conditioned fear responses. Rats with lesions of the central nucleus exhibited reduction in the suppression of behaviour elicited…
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