A twin study of the genetics of fear conditioning

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 702-708

  Hettema, John M ^a   Annas, Peter ^c   Neale, Michael C ^a,b   Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b   Fredrikson, Mats ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; HABITUATION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SNAKE; SPIDER; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0038354635     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.7.702     Document Type: Article

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