Disruption of protein synthesis in the amygdala has been shown to prevent long-term memory for fear conditioning.
The ventral hippocampus functions in fear conditioning and affective processes.
A treatment for fear conditioning and phobias via the amygdala is the use of glucocorticoids.
With fear conditioning, the mouse won't even dart - it hunkers down.
This region of the brain is associated with fear conditioning, and has many connections with the cortex to control the body's emotional response.
The amygdala's ability to respond to fearful stimuli occurs through the process of fear conditioning.
I know (roughly) that the amygdala is responsible for fear conditioning.
In a process called fear conditioning, they simultaneously played a tone and delivered an electric shock to the feet of caged rats.
This hypothesis is especially appealing as an explanation for how simple associative learning, such as that taking place in fear conditioning, might occur.
Most notably, there is a deficit in a learning paradigm that involves hippocampus-dependent contextual fear conditioning.