Contextual control over expression of fear is affected by cortisol

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 1-14

  van Ast, Vanessa A ^a   Vervliet, Bram ^b   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Context; Cortisol; Fear potentiated startle; Fear conditioning; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; CONTEXTUAL CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 84868255879     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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