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Contextual Fear Memory

Contextual Fear Memory is a type of associative memory representing the mental encoding and retention of fear-based responses specifically linked to environmental or situational contexts, distinguished from other fear memories by its dependence on hippocampal processing for the contextual representation rather than discrete cues.

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Modality-Specific Retrograde Amnesia of Fear

Jeansok J. Kim, Michael S. Fanselow · Science · 1992 · 2.5K citations

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Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

Mohammed R. Milad, Gregory J. Quirk · Nature · 2002 · 1.8K citations

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Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall

Xu Liu, Steve Ramirez, Petti T. Pang et al. · Nature · 2012 · 1.8K citations

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Genetic Demonstration of a Role for PKA in the Late Phase of LTP and in Hippocampus-Based Long-Term Memory

Ted Abel, Peter Nguyen, Mark Barad et al. · Cell · 1997 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Recall of Fear Extinction in Humans Activates the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus in Concert

Mohammed R. Milad, Christopher I. Wright, Scott P. Orr et al. · Biological Psychiatry · 2007 · 1.2K citations

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  1. MS
    Michael S. Fanselow

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    49 publications · 10K citations

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  2. SM
    Stephen Maren

    University of Michigan, United States

    41 publications · 6.7K citations

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    Jerry W. Rudy

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    29 publications · 3.7K citations

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    Thomas J. Gould

    Temple University, United States

    33 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Fred J. Helmstetter

    University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, United States

    20 publications · 1.9K citations

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    47 h-index

    236 publications

    39.4K citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    41 h-index

    246 publications

    40K citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    34 h-index

    150 publications

    20.6K citations

  4. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    34 h-index

    107 publications

    12.6K citations

  5. New York University

    New York, United States

    30 h-index

    88 publications

    15.3K citations

  6. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    29 h-index

    77 publications

    31K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    29 h-index

    191 publications

    16.5K citations

  8. Hospital for Sick Children

    Toronto, Canada

    29 h-index

    124 publications

    28.1K citations

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  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    156 publications · 26.1K citations

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  2. Learning & Memory

    149 publications · 12.4K citations

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  3. Behavioral Neuroscience

    94 publications · 9.9K citations

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  4. Hippocampus

    83 publications · 6.6K citations

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  5. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

    NLM · 115 publications · 5.5K citations

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