Conditioned fear extinction and reinstatement in a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 681-685

  Norrholm, Seth D ^a,b,c   Jovanovic, Tanja ^a,b,c   Vervliet, Bram ^d,e   Myers, Karyn M ^c   Davis, Michael ^a,c,f   Rothbaum, Barbara O ^a   Duncan, Erica J ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Georgia State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE;

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33845321735     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.393906     Document Type: Article

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