Cerebellar vermis contributes to the extinction of conditioned fear

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 604, Issue , 2015, Pages 173-177

  Utz, A ^a   Thurling M ^a   Ernst, T M ^a   Hermann, A ^b   Stark, R ^b   Wolf, O T ^c   Timmann, D ^a   Merz, C J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Fear conditioning; Fear extinction; FMRI; Lobule VI; Vermis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRICAL STIMULUS TEST; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR VERMIS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941248857     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.07.026     Document Type: Article

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