Plasticity of fear and safety neurons of the amygdala in response to fear extinction

Fear inhibition learning induces plasticity and remodeling of circuits within the amygdala. Most studies examine these changes in nondiscriminative fear conditioning paradigms. Using a discriminative fear, safety and reward conditioning task, Sangha et al (2013) have previously reported several neur...

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Main Author: Susan eSangha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00354/full