Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 54-64

  LaBar, Kevin S ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; MASKING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 29244462877     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1825     Document Type: Review

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