From fear to safety and back: Reversal of fear in the human brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 11517-11525

  Schiller, Daniela ^a   Levy, Ifat ^a   Niv, Yael ^b   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Prediction error; Reversal; Striatum; vmPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REVERSAL LEARNING; SAFETY;

EID: 58149239666     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2265-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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