Classical fear conditioning in functional neuroimaging

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 219-223

  Büchel, Christian ^a,b   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Medical School Hamburg Eppendorf   (Germany)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0343091292     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00078-7     Document Type: Review

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