Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned diminution of the unconditioned fear response

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 787-799

  Wood, Kimberly H ^a   Ver Hoef, Lawrence W ^b   Knight, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Conditioning; Emotion; Fear; FMRI; Learning; Prefrontal cortex; Skin conductance; Unconditioned response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; WHITE NOISE;

BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856202981     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.048     Document Type: Article

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