Fear extinction as a model for translational neuroscience: Ten years of progress

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-151

  Milad, Mohammed R ^a   Quirk, Gregory J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Cingulate; Conditioning; FMRI; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONDITIONING; FEAR; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 82955229598     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.121208.131631     Document Type: Review

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