Is extinction of fear erasure or inhibition? Why both, of course

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 108-109

  Barad, Mark ^a,b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 33645499707     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.211306     Document Type: Note

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