Effects of rapid eye movement sleep deprivation on fear extinction recall and prediction error signaling

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2362-2376

  Spoormaker, Victor I ^a   Schröter, Manuel S ^a   Andrade, Kátia C ^a   Dresler, Martin ^a   Kiem, Sara A ^a   Goya Maldonado, Roberto ^a   Wetter, Thomas C ^a,b   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Sämann, Philipp G ^a   Czisch, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fear extinction; FMRI; Polysomnography; Prediction error; REM sleep; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866162853     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21369     Document Type: Article

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