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Long-Term Memory for Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Requires Dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens and Basolateral Amygdala

The neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) is essential for learning in a Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm known as fear-potentiated startle (FPS). Mice lacking the ability to synthesize DA fail to learn the association between the conditioned stimulus and the fear-inducing footshock. Previously, we dem...

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Autores principales: Fadok, Jonathan P., Darvas, Martin, Dickerson, Tavis M. K., Palmiter, Richard D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012751