The effects of acute stress exposure on striatal activity during Pavlovian conditioning with monetary gains and losses

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Lewis, Andrea H ^a   Porcelli, Anthony J ^b   Delgado, Mauricio R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Cold pressor; Conditioning; Cortisol; fMRI; Striatum

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84901421333     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00179     Document Type: Article

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