Synapse-Specific Encoding of Fear Memory in the Amygdala. Academic Article

abstract

• Input specificity is a fundamental property of long-term potentiation (LTP), but it is not known if learning is mediated by synapse-specific plasticity. Kim and Cho (2017) now show that fear conditioning is mediated by synapse-specific LTP in the amygdala, allowing animals to discriminate stimuli that predict threat from those that do not.

authors

• Maren, Stephen

published proceedings

• Neuron

altmetric score

• 3.25

author list (cited authors)

• Maren, S.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Maren, Stephen

publication date

• August 2017

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Neuron  Journal

keywords

• Amygdala
• Animals
• Conditioning, Psychological
• Fear
• Long-term Potentiation
• Memory
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Synapses

PubMed Central ID

• 28858626

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.08.020

start page

• 988

end page

• 990

volume

• 95

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.08.020