Medial prefrontal cortex stimulation modulates the processing of conditioned fear

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Guhn, Anne ^a   Dresler, Thomas ^b,c   Andreatta, Marta ^a   Müller, Laura D ^a   Hahn, Tim ^d   Tupak, Sara V ^a,e   Polak, Thomas ^a   Deckert, Jürgen ^a   Herrmann, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Learning; Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC); Memory consolidation and extinction; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894037971     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00044     Document Type: Article

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