Unconditioned freezing is enhanced in an appetitive context: Implications for the contextual dependency of unconditioned fear

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 386-392

  Knox, Dayan ^a   Fitzpatrick, Christopher J ^a   George, Sophie A ^a   Abelson, James L ^a   Liberzon, Israel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Context; Emotional regulation; Expectancy mismatch

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPECTANCY MISMATCH; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REWARD; UNCONDITIONED FEAR; UNCONDITIONED FREEZING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84861193395     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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