REM sleep depotentiates amygdala activity to previous emotional experiences

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2029-2032

  Van Der Helm, Els ^a   Yao, Justin ^a   Dutt, Shubir ^a   Rao, Vikram ^a   Saletin, Jared M ^a   Walker, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REM SLEEP;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 82955249076     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.052     Document Type: Article

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