Behavioral and neural mechanisms of overgeneralization in anxiety

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 713-722

  Laufer, Offir ^a   Israeli, David ^b   Paz, Rony ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

amygdala; anxiety disorders; aversive learning; medial prefrontal cortex; perception; safety; stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84959313621     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.023     Document Type: Article

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