Pavlovian fear conditioning activates a common pattern of neurons in the lateral amygdala of individual brains.
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SUBMITTER: Bergstrom HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3020219 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
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Pavlovian fear conditioning activates a common pattern of neurons in the lateral amygdala of individual brains.
Bergstrom Hadley C HC McDonald Craig G CG Johnson Luke R LR
PloS one 20110112 1
Understanding the physical encoding of a memory (the engram) is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Although it has been established that the lateral amygdala is a key site for encoding associative fear memory, it is currently unclear whether the spatial distribution of neurons encoding a given memory is random or stable. Here we used spatial principal components analysis to quantify the topography of activated neurons, in a select region of the lateral amygdala, from rat brains encoding a P ...[more]
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