The Teenage Brain: Altered Fear in Humans and Mice

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-151

  Pattwell, Siobhan S ^a   Casey, B J ^b   Lee, Francis S ^a,c  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; amygdala; development; fear; hippocampus; human; mouse; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876232423     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412471323     Document Type: Article

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