The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the recovery of extinguished fear

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 6225-6231

  Quirk, Gregory J ^a   Russo, Gregory K ^a   Barron, Jill L ^a   Lebron, Kelimer ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Infralimbic; Inhibition; Prelimbic

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SHOCK;

EID: 0034663007     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-16-06225.2000     Document Type: Article

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