NMDA Receptors and L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels Contribute to Long-Term Potentiation and Different Components of Fear Memory Formation in the Lateral Amygdala

↵* E.P.B. and G.E.S. contributed equally to this work.

This research was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grants MH 46516, MH00956, MH 39774, and MH 11902 and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship to E.P.B. The work was also supported by a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to New York University. We thank Kathryn Johnson and Annemieke Schoute for technical assistance. We also thank Hugh T. Blair for helpful comments on this manuscript.

Correspondence should be addressed to Elizabeth P. Bauer, Center for Neural Science, 4 Washington Place, Room 809, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: bauer{at}cns.nyu.edu.