Contextual fear conditioning in humans: Cortical-hippocampal and amygdala contributions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 6211-6219

  Alvarez, Ruben P ^a   Biggs, Arter ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Classical conditioning; Context conditioning; fMRI; Pavlovian conditioning; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; MALE; NETWORK LEARNING; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORY NERVE; SHOCK; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SPECIES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS; VIRTUAL REALITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46749147164     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1246-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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