Resting-state connectivity of the amygdala is altered following pavlovian fear conditioning

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Schultz, Douglas H ^a   Balderston, Nicholas L ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STEADY STATE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933677561     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00242     Document Type: Article

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