Fear conditioning following a unilateral anterior temporal lobectomy: Reduced autonomic responding and stimulus contingency knowledge

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-48

  Coppens, Evelien ^a   Van Paesschen, Wim ^a   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Contingency memory; Fearpotentiated startle response; Relevance detector; Skin conductance responses; Valence ratings

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 77953722894     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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