Fear conditioning in an abdominal pain model: neural responses during associative learning and extinction in healthy subjects.

Fear conditioning is relevant for elucidating the pathophysiology of anxiety, but may also be useful in the context of chronic pain syndromes which often overlap with anxiety. Thus far, no fear conditioning studies have employed aversive visceral stimuli from the lower gastrointestinal tract. Theref...

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Main Authors: Joswin Kattoor, Elke R Gizewski, Vassilios Kotsis, Sven Benson, Carolin Gramsch, Nina Theysohn, Stefan Maderwald, Michael Forsting, Manfred Schedlowski, Sigrid Elsenbruch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3582635?pdf=render