Prefrontal mechanisms of fear reduction after threat offset

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1031-1038

  Klumpers, Floris ^a   Raemaekers, Mathijs A H L ^a   Ruigrok, Amber N V ^a   Hermans, Erno J ^b,c   Kenemans, J Leon ^a   Baas, Johanna M P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotion regulation; Fear; FMRI; Imaging; Prefrontal cortex; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SHOCK; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 78349268708     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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