From threat to fear: The neural organization of defensive fear systems in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 12236-12243

  Mobbs, Dean ^a,b   Marchant, Jennifer L ^a   Hassabis, Demis ^a   Seymour, Ben ^a   Tan, Geoffrey ^a   Gray, Marcus ^a,e   Petrovic, Predrag ^a,c   Dolan, Raymond J ^a   Frith, Christopher D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEAR; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; PANIC; PREDATOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; THREAT;

ADULT; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PANIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349619652     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2378-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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