Clarifying the Role of the Rostral dmPFC/dACC in Fear/Anxiety: Learning, Appraisal or Expression?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Maier, Simon ^a,b   Szalkowski, Anna ^a   Kamphausen, Susanne ^a,c   Perlov, Evgeniy ^a   Feige, Bernd ^a   Blechert, Jens ^d   Philipsen, Alexandra ^a   van Elst, Ludger Tebartz ^a   Kalisch, Raffael ^e   Tüscher, Oliver ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CATASTROPHIZING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870036923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050120     Document Type: Article

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