Stress and fear extinction

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 58-79

  Maren, Stephen ^a   Holmes, Andrew ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; NORADRENALIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; FEAR; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STRESS; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84949552491     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.180     Document Type: Review

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