Equal pain – Unequal fear response: Enhanced susceptibility of tooth pain to fear conditioning

Equal pain – Unequal fear response: Enhanced susceptibility of tooth pain to fear conditioning

Experimental fear conditioning in humans is widely used as a model to investigate the neural basis of fear learning and to unravel the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders. It has been observed that fear conditioning depends on stimulus salience and subject vulnerability to fear. It is further known th...

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Main Authors: Michael Lukas Meier, Nuno Miguel Prates De Matos, Mike eBruegger, Nenad eLukic, Marcus eCheetham, Dominik eEttlin, Lutz eJaencke, Kai eLutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Amygdala
Pain
Tooth
Fear conditioning
fMRI
Skin conductance response
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00526/full

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