Learning Not to Fear, Faster

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-126

  Quirk, Gregory J ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

YOHIMBINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REINFORCEMENT; SAFETY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MICE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; TIME FACTORS; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 1842474937     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.75404     Document Type: Note

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