Induction and Expression of Fear Sensitization Caused by Acute Traumatic Stress

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 45-57

  Perusini, Jennifer N ^a   Meyer, Edward M ^a   Long, Virginia A ^a   Rau, Vinuta ^a   Nocera, Nathaniel ^a   Avershal, Jacob ^a   Maksymetz, James ^a   Spigelman, Igor ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE;

BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; TRAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CORTICOSTERONE; FEAR; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84949587662     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.224     Document Type: Review

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