Fear extinction as a model for synaptic plasticity in major depressive disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Kuhn, Marion ^a   Höger, Nora ^a   Feige, Bernd ^a   Blechert, Jens ^b   Normann, Claus ^a   Nissen, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR EXTINCTION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; STARTLE REFLEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84920191951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115280     Document Type: Article

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