Oxytocin and Memory of Emotional Stimuli: Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 203-212

  Maroun, Mouna ^a   Wagner, Shlomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional memory; Fear conditioning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Oxytocin; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN STEM; EMOTION; FEAR; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EMOTIONS; FEAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84955573905     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.07.016     Document Type: Review

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