A model of amygdala-hippocampal-prefrontal interaction in fear conditioning and extinction in animals

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-43

  Moustafa, Ahmed A ^a,b,c   Gilbertson, Mark W ^d,e   Orr, Scott P ^e,f   Herzallah, Mohammad M ^b,g   Servatius, Richard J ^c,h   Myers, Catherine E ^c,h,i  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d Manchester VA Medical Center   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^h RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Computational model; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS; RATS;

EID: 84869121938     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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