Learning pain-related fear: Neural mechanisms mediating rapid differential conditioning, extinction and reinstatement processes in human visceral pain

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-45

  Gramsch, Carolin ^a   Kattoor, Joswin ^a   Icenhour, Adriane ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Schedlowski, Manfred ^a   Gizewski, Elke R ^b   Elsenbruch, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear conditioning; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Irritable bowel syndrome; Reinstatement; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; IRRITABLE COLON; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NAUSEA; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RECTAL DISTENSION; RECTUM DISEASE; REINFORCEMENT; REINSTATEMENT; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE AVERSION; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; CONDITIONED REFLEX; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT; EMOTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; VISCERAL PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906776367     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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