Versatility of fear-potentiated startle paradigms for assessing human conditioned fear extinction and return of fear

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Norrholm, Seth D ^a,b   Anderson, Kemp M ^a,b   Olin, Ilana W ^a,b   Jovanovic, Tanja ^b   Kwon, Cliffe ^a,b   Warren, Victor T ^a,b   McCarthy, Alexander ^a,b   Bosshardt, Lauren ^a,b   Sabree, Justin ^a,c   Duncan, Erica J ^a,b   Rothbaum, Barbara O ^b   Bradley, Bekh ^a,b  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Auditory; Discrimination; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Human

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84855334664     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00077     Document Type: Article

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