Neuroimaging of Fear-Associated Learning

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 320-334

  Greco, John A ^a,b   Liberzon, Israel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONDITIONING; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; LATERAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STARTLE REFLEX; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; LEARNING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEUROIMAGING; PANIC DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84949568295     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.255     Document Type: Review

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