Taking action in the face of threat: Neural synchronization predicts adaptive coping

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 14733-14738

  Collins, Katherine A ^a   Mendelsohn, Avi ^a   Cain, Christopher K ^b,c   Schiller, Daniela ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Coping; Emotion; Fear; Individual differences; Instrumental learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONNECTOME; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEURAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SIDMAN AVOIDANCE TEST; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908348781     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2152-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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