Cortisol enhances neural differentiation during fear acquisition and extinction in contingency aware young women

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 392-401

  Tabbert, Katharina ^a   Merz, C J ^a,b   Klucken, T ^a   Schweckendiek, J ^a   Vaitl, Dieter ^a   Wolf, O T ^b   Stark, Rudolf ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Emotion; Extinction learning; Fear learning; FMRI; Stress hormones

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PLACEBO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALIVA;

EID: 77957240960     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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