Passive avoidance is linked to impaired fear extinction in humans

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 164-169

  Cornwell, Brian R ^a,b   Overstreet, Cassie ^a   Krimsky, Marissa ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; PAVLOVIAN DIFFERENTIAL FEAR CONDITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STARTLE REACTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875149356     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.028902.112     Document Type: Article

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