Epigenetic mechanisms in fear conditioning: Implications for treating post-traumatic stress disorder

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 706-720

  Kwapis, Janine L ^a   Wood, Marcelo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Epigenetics; Extinction; Fear conditioning; PTSD; Updating

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR;

BRAIN REGION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONDITIONING; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NUCLEOSOME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84919496045     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.08.005     Document Type: Review

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