Conditioned Behaviour Mediated by Separate Nuclei Within Amygdala
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letters to nature only individuals descended from field-collected b-males, and then affect only two Ams genotypes: Tfr1Tfr2 females bearing b-alleles were assumed to a a mature as b-males, and Tfr1Tfr2, Ams Ams males were assumed to mature as Different types of fear- females. This latter effect assumed that the Tfr2 allele interacts with ECF, which b initially occurred only in parental -males, but which was transmitted to F1-2 conditioned behaviour individuals of both sexes and a range of Ams genotypes (Table 3b). Testing the model. In Tables 3a,b, exact probabilities were Bonferroni- mediated by separate adjusted (0.05/k, where k is the number of tests) when multiple crosses with identical Ams and Tfr genotypes, as well as ECF states were tested; similar nuclei within amygdala crosses with nonsignificant exact probabilities were pooled and the exact x2 probability for the pooled frequencies reported; primary sex-determination Simon Killcross*, Trevor W. Robbins & Barry J. Everitt genotypes were unambiguously determined from Pgm genotype frequencies Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, within families; the apparent Tfr genotypes among 36 parents (24 crosses) were Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK 15 Tfr1Tfr1,12Tfr1Tfr2 and 9 Tfr2Tfr2; expected genotypes calculated from ......................................................................................................................... inferred allele frequencies conform to Hardy–Weinberg expectations, exact x2 The amygdala has long been thought to be involved in emotional probability 0.21. behaviour1,2, and its role in anxiety and conditioned fear has been highlighted3,4. Individual amygdaloid nuclei have been shown to Received 21 January; accepted 24 April 1997. project to various cortical and subcortical regions implicated in 1. Lank, D. B., Smith, C. M., Hanotte, O., Burke, T. & Cooke, F. 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