Fear conditioning, safety learning, and sleep in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 11754-11760

  Marshall, Anisa J ^a,f   Acheson, Dean T ^a,c,d   Risbrough, Victoria B ^a,c,d   Straus, Laura D ^a,e   Drummond, Sean P A ^b,c,d,e  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Psychology Service   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences ^*

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; REM sleep; Safety learning; Translational

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEAR-POTENTIATED STARTLE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SAFETY; SLEEP DISORDER; STIMULUS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

FEAR CONDITIONING; REM SLEEP; SAFETY LEARNING; TRANSLATIONAL;

ADULT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906545737     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0478-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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