Persistence of Amygdala-Hippocampal Connectivity and Multi-Voxel Correlation Structures During Awake Rest After Fear Learning Predicts Long-Term Expression of Fear

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 3028-3041

  Hermans, Erno J ^a,b,c   Kanen, Jonathan W ^a,d   Tambini, Arielle ^a,e   Fernández, Guillén ^b,c   Davachi, Lila ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Memory consolidation; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONVALESCENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; STRIATE CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BREATHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; HEART RATE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUPIL; SENSORY NERVE; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; RESPIRATION; REST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013931176     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw145     Document Type: Article

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