Medial prefrontal pathways for the contextual regulation of extinguished fear in humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 262-271

  Åhs, Fredrik ^a,b,c   Kragel, Philip A ^a   Zielinski, David J ^d   Brady, Rachael ^d   LaBar, Kevin S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior cingulate cortex; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84939625047     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.051     Document Type: Article

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