Chapter 2.2 The use of conditioning tasks to model fear and anxiety

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-48

  Fanselow, Michael S ^a   Ponnusamy, Ravikumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; conditioning; extinction; fear; model; PTSD; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649682233     PISSN: 15697339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-7339(07)00003-3     Document Type: Review

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