Worrying affects associative fear learning: A startle fear conditioning study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Gazendam, Femke J ^a   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONDITIONED REFLEX; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859710856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034882     Document Type: Article

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