State anxiety modulation of the amygdala response to unattended threat-related stimuli.

Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human volunteers have led to the suggestion that the amygdala is involved in the preattentive detection of threat-related stimuli. However, some neuroimaging findings point to attentional modulation of the amygdala resp...

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Main Authors: Bishop, S, Duncan, J, Lawrence, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004