Amygdala and hippocampal activity during acquisition and extinction of human fear conditioning

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-325

  Knight, David C ^a,b   Smith, Christine N ^a,c   Cheng, Dominic T ^a   Stein, Elliot A ^d,e   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 5344273995     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.3.317     Document Type: Article

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