The role of the amygdala in learnt fear

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Papers

 * Cahill, L., Vazdarjanova, A. and Setlow, B. (2000). The basolateral amygdala complex is involved with, but is not necessary for, rapid acquisition of Pavlovian "fear" conditioning, European Journal of Neuroscience 12, 3044-50.
 * Davis, M., (2000). The role of the amygdala in conditioned and unconditioned fear and anxiety, in Aggleton, J. P. (ed.), The Amygdala: A Functional Analysis, Oxford University Press, London.
 * Killcross, S., Robbins, T. W., and Everitt, B. J. (1997). Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala, Nature 388, 377-80.
 * LeDoux, J., (2000). The amygdala and emotion: a view through fear, in Aggleton, J. P. (ed.), The Amygdala: A Functional Analysis, Oxford University Press, London.
 * Vazdarjanova, A. and McGaugh, J. L., (1998).  Basolateral amygdala is not a critical locus for memory of contextual fear conditioning, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, USA 95, 15003-7.