Sensitive Periods in Affective Development: Nonlinear Maturation of Fear Learning

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-60

  Hartley, Catherine A ^a   Lee, Francis S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEAR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84926666634     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.179     Document Type: Review

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