Single dose of L-dopa makes extinction memories context-independent and prevents the return of fear

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 26, 2013, Pages

  Haaker, Jan ^a   Gaburro, Stefano ^b   Sah, Anupam ^c   Gartmann, Nina ^a   Lonsdorf, Tina B ^a   Meier, Kolja ^a   Singewald, Nicolas ^c   Pape, Hans Christian ^b   Morellini, Fabio ^a   Kalisch, Raffael ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Psychotherapy; Reinstatement; Renewal; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

FEAR CONDITIONING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REINSTATEMENT; RENEWAL; RESILIENCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

MUS;

EID: 84879530897     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303061110     Document Type: Article

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