Dynamic neural activity recorded from human amygdala during fear conditioning using magnetoencephalography

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 452-460

  Moses, Sandra N ^a,b   Houck, Jon M ^a   Martin, Tim ^a   Hanlon, Faith M ^d,e   Ryan, Jennifer D ^b   Thoma, Robert J ^d,e   Weisend, Michael P ^d   Jackson, Eric M ^a   Pekkonen, Eero ^c   Tesche, Claudia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associative learning; Classical conditioning; Dynamic activity; Fear conditioning; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICIPATION; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33846450343     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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