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Herry, C, Bach, DR, Esposito, F, Di Salle, F, Perrig, WJ, Scheffler, K, Luthi, A, Seifritz, E (2007) Processing of temporal unpredictability in human and animal amygdala. J Neurosci, 27:5958–5966.

Herry, C, Ciocchi, S, Senn, V, Demmou, L, Muller, C, Luthi, A (2008) Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits. Nature, 454:600–606.

Humeau, Y, Reisel, D, Johnson, AW, Borchardt, T, Jensen, V, Gebhardt, C, Bosch, V, Gass, P, Bannerman, DM, Good, MA, Hvalby, O, Sprengel, R, Luthi, A (2007) A pathway-specific function for different AMPA receptor subunits in amygdala long-term potentiation and fear conditioning. J Neurosci, 27:10947–10956.

Sah P, Westbrook RF, Lüthi A (2008) Fear conditioning and LTP in the amygdala: What really is the connection? Ann NY Acad Sci 1129: 88-95.

Humeau Y, Lüthi A. (2007) Dendritic Ca2+ spikes induce bi-directional synaptic plasticity in the lateral amygdala. Neuropharmacology 52: 234-243.

Gogolla N, Caroni P, Luthi A, Herry C (2009) Perineuronal nets protect fear memories from erasure. Science 325:1258-1261.

Pizzorusso T (2009) Neuroscience. Erasing fear memories. Science 325:1214-1215.

Ehrlich, I, Humeau, Y, Grenier, F, Ciocchi, S, Herry, C, Luthi, A (2009) Amygdala inhibitory circuits and the control of fear memory. Neuron, 62: 757-771.