Treatment of fear memories: Interactions between extinction and reconsolidation

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1363-1372

  Fiorenza, Natália G ^a   Sartor, Dagieli ^a   Myskiw, Jociane C ^a   Izquierdo, Iván ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extinction learning; Fear memories; Memory; Post traumatic stress disorder; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855179390     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652011000400023     Document Type: Article

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