The surprising subtleties of changing fear memory: A challenge for translational science

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1742, 2018, Pages

  Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotional memory disorders; Extinction; Fear memory; Reconsolidation; Translational science

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EXTINCTION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMAL; FEAR; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; FEAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85040918061     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0033     Document Type: Article

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