Avoidant symptoms in PTSD predict fear circuit activation during multimodal fear extinction

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Sripada, Rebecca K ^a,b   Garfinkel, Sarah N ^c   Liberzon, Israel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Avoidance; Fear conditioning; fMRI; Hippocampus; Neuroimaging; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOUCH; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISION;

EID: 84886395204     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00672     Document Type: Article

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