Social anxiety modulates amygdala activation during social conditioning

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-276

  Pejic, Tanja ^a   Hermann, Andrea ^a   Vaitl, Dieter ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Extinction; Fear conditioning; FMRI; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

AMYGDALA; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; OXYGEN; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875232499     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr095     Document Type: Article

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