Impaired acquisition of classically conditioned fear-potentiated startle reflexes in humans with focal bilateral basolateral amygdala damage

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1161-1168

  Klumpers, Floris ^a,b   Morgan, Barak ^c   Terburg, David ^a,d   Stein, Dan J ^d   van Honk, Jack ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Basolateral; Fear conditioning; FMRI; Lesion; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STARTLE REFLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; REFLEX, STARTLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941282679     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu164     Document Type: Article

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