New Learning and Unlearning: Strangers or Accomplices in Threat Memory Attenuation?

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 340-351

  Clem, Roger L ^a   Schiller, Daniela ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Engram; Extinction; Memory; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREAT; BRAIN; CONDITIONED REFLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY;

EID: 84964027448     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.03.003     Document Type: Review

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