Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4500-4505

  Lau, Jennifer Y ^a,b   Britton, Jennifer C ^b   Nelson, Eric E ^b   Angold, Adrian ^c   Ernst, Monique ^b   Goldwin, Michelle ^b,d   Grillon, Christian ^b   Leibenluft, Ellen ^b   Lissek, Shmuel ^b,e   Norcross, Maxine ^b   Shiffrin, Nina ^b,f   Pine, Daniel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Brain development; Discriminative fear conditioning; Threat responding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79952729757     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005494108     Document Type: Article

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