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Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala
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Long-term potentiation (LTP) is an experience-dependent form of neural plasticity believed to involve mechanisms that underlie memory formation. LTP has been studied most extensively in the hippocampus, but the relation between hippocampal LTP and memory has been difficult to establish. Here we explore the relation between LTP and memory in fear conditioning, an amygdala-dependent form of learning in which an innocuous conditioned stimulus (CS) elicits fear responses after being associatively paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US). We have previously shown that LTP induction in pathways that transmit auditory CS information to the lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LA) increases auditory-evoked field potentials in this nucleus. Now we show that fear conditioning alters auditory CS-evoked responses in LA in the same way as LTP induction. The changes parallel the acquisition of CS-elicited fear behaviour, are enduring, and do not occur if the CS and US remain unpaired. LTP-like associative processes thus occur during fear conditioning, and these may underlie the long-term associative plasticity that constitutes memory of the conditioning experience.
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“These investigators demonstrated that fear conditioning produced an enhancement of CS-evoked activity in the amygdala.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rogan, M. T., Stäubli, U. V., & LeDoux, J. E.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rogan, Michael T.
- ORCID
- LeDoux, Joseph E.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1997-12-01
- Volume
- 390
- Issue
- 6660
- Pages
- 604-607
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1703928766
- Cited by
- 1,310
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 30.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- long-term potentiation, fear conditioning, amygdala, lateral amygdala, associative plasticity, memory formation, auditory conditioned stimulus, neuroplasticity
- MeSH terms
- Amygdala, Animals, Association Learning, Conditioning, Classical, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Fear, Memory, Long-Term Potentiation, Rats
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