Reinstatement of extinguished fear by an unextinguished conditional stimulus

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Halladay, Lindsay R ^a   Zelikowsky, Moriel ^a   Blair, Hugh T ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Fear extinction; Reinstatement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84864386264     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00018     Document Type: Article

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